Acer Aspire 7750g Owner's Thread

[captainkronos]

Wow, I wiped the screen with a tissue and it left a 2cm scratch left center of display. Are you kidding me??!!?

[captainkronos]

Anyway... hours later I'm finally up & running. Just installing all the Win updates now..

What a PITA this has been..

I installed Win 7 Ult SP1 iso from a SD card, but then my key said upgrade only, not valid for clean installs.. & I used it for clean installs all the time.

Then I do the DVD install & it activates but makes me call the hotline & punch in the numbers on the phone & then on the computer.. I had to do it 3 times because it would hang up in the middle of reading me the numbers to punch in like OMGGGGGGGG

then I had to find a way to copy the Atheros drivers from the ASUS to the Acer since the BT 4.0 b/g/n card that was from eBay wouldn't work in the Acer. What a mess!

I also found out no SATA III in optical bay... so that's where the old 500gb HDD is now.

I've got a checkbook under the second SSD to hold it up better until dremel time.

I love this keyboard. I guess I got lucky there LOL

Haven't done any gaming yet bc waiting for updates & then installing all software.

YouTube runs a lot better though when viewing 1080p.. the time bar loads much faster than on the ASUS. Also, the speaker is 1k times better LOL

[NeoandGeo]

Wow, I wiped the screen with a tissue and it left a 2cm scratch left center of display. Are you kidding me??!!?

Something in your tissue.

[captainkronos]

Ok smart guys... I dremeled the crap out of the removable battery cover & the ssd still doesn't fit..

APPARENTLY YOU NEED A 7MM SSD, not a regular one

So, I guess that the cover you can buy doesn't have room for a regular SSD either, but only a 7mm one??

For now I have it all closed except that portion of the cover, which I'll tape up if I have to go anywhere.

EDIT: reread some posts... going to remove SSD from casing...

EDIT: worth it to void warranty???

EDIT: apparently the other cover is made for any size - Where can I buy an extended HDD cover for a 7750G?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/atta...7750g-kryt.jpg

Anyway... just going to remove the casing =/

[ehancock]

The other door probably has a bulge in it to make room for a standard size hard drive.

edit: nvm beaten

edit again: play some bf3 so i know what settings to use.

[captainkronos]

The other door probably has a bulge in it to make room for a standard size hard drive.

edit: nvm beaten

edit again: play some bf3 so i know what settings to use.

Ok.. so I tried various levels of using the SSD casing.. I don't think a 7mm would even fit after all the dremel work.

So no casing!

& I'll def get on the gameplay.... still doing all the Win updates LOL

I'll tell you this though, I'm running the 12.4 video driver from AMD..hopefully it'll work out okay!

This thing boots about 5-10 secs faster than the ASUS did with SSDs

[captainkronos]

The other door probably has a bulge in it to make room for a standard size hard drive.

edit: nvm beaten

edit again: play some bf3 so i know what settings to use.

Ok... not bad.... going to work on it later.. have to go to work now.

30-35 with full rez shadows off & and post AA off..

haven't touched CCC

I really want to see if I can get a different rez in between the two.. but no time now bc leaving for work.

I'm happy though!

[bache]

My battery has really degraded lately. On power-saving I only get around an hour and a half, when just last month I was getting around 2 and a half.

I downloaded BatteryCare and apparently it has a 11.95% wear level! That is most certainly not normal for a laptop only 2-3 months old. The battery has been treated properly, so I don't know what would have caused this.

I'm kind of curious what Acer would say about this. Does the warranty cover this sort of thing? Would my warranty be voided when I installed my extra RAM and SSD?

[captainkronos]

Problem........ when playing a game, there is a loud buzzing sound coming from the area of HDD bay 2. It is not coming from the SSD though, because the game is not on that drive.

The buzzing starts & stops the very instant I open/close the game or tab in/out of it.

It's not the fan, because the fan is already running & I can hear it just fine.

I suppose it's the CPU or GPU. Would I need to send this into Acer for a free repair? It's a pretty annoying sound.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

It's not a very high pitched buzz either. I may just record a video for you all to hear it.

I'm thinking it's the GPU.

EDIT: here's the video - http://youtu.be/6lbtMXhS3RQ

[ehancock]

When i ran Furmark on mine at work i heard it, but when i brought it home it either hasn't been quiet enough or it doesn't do it anymore.

It's probably something that would be covered under warranty but it may just be inherent in the design of the gpu