Acer Aspire 7750g Owner's Thread

[ehancock]

What are your CPU temps under load?

[popeye1128]

What are your CPU temps under load?

[captainkronos]

I was going to send my Acer & ASUS in for repairs at the same time... the ASUS is already done (it's back to Best Buy from ASUS), but I didn't send the Acer yet because now it has a second issue: a little mark of dead pixels!

I'm waiting until I get the ASUS back to send this out so I still have a PC. Didn't call them to tell them about the new issue so I'll be doing that tomorrow.. I guess it'll be up to them if it's covered or not.... hopefully it is. I haven't looked at their dead pixel policy but the ASUS was covered because it was a dead pixel mark that was more of a grouping of pixels. Obviously one pixel would be very tiny & I wouldn't care. The ASUS had like 8-9 composing it's mark, the Acer has maybe 6-7.

Also, I'm going to order a new bottom cover (the one that you remove to upgrade the RAM & SSDs) so they don't think I had anything to do with damaging the thing in relation to the GPU making a buzzing sound, since the sound did in fact exist prior to the dremeling of the cover.

In other news, I wish I had a 512gb ssd to go with the 256 instead of having two 256's because the Steam Summer Sale has me way over the limit & I'll have to use the HDD for all of my media for games once I get it back out of the ASUS (it was the OEM HDD in that)

[captainkronos]

So.. Today I shut down my computer and then turn it back on a minute later. It starts in low rez mode like there's no video driver and them windows explorer keeps crashing and freezes everything I click. Hard shutdown and restart gives me the same thing. Safe mode gives me the same thing..

Anyway, I finally wait a few minutes on the last start and it says the AMD driver is missing or not installed. I try to do a few things and it freezes into a blue screen.

Upon the blue screen restart, it doesn't make it past boot and says no bootable device.

What is going on?????? Did I just lose one of my SSDs?

[captainkronos]

Ok, well I restarted and it went back to low resolution. Not that I can do anything.

Ok, so now it's getting worse. I let it sit on the login screen for 10 seconds and it blue screened and went back into the no bootable device.

The bios shows my solid state drives. I suppose my video card may have gone out? I was going to send it into Acer to have them repair the GPU or replace the board because of the buzzing sound that comes from it, maybe this is the result of that sound?

UPDATE:

I put the OEM HD in because it has the stock install. It's working fine...... ugh. So I wonder what the heck is going on with my SSD setup. It may be a trojan but all of the forums say it isn't.

It's called "DYNAMER DTC." It was detected yesterday but it didn't remove it. Anyway, I guess I'll just wipe out my SSDs & go from there.

Also, via Google, it looks like Crucial M4 SSDs have a problem with blue screens related to firmware. I guess I'll update the FW but I looked at the FW stickers on the physical drives & they were the new FW, so I am lost right now.

[otase]

lol i wouldnt use turbo boost as it will help crush your CPU definitly,
test Emulator Dolphin with a game called Fatal Frame 4 and ya will see what im talking about lol

Turbo Boost 3.0ghz on mine would hit 85C on that hungry cpu emulator with that demanding game,
other pc games wont go higher than 75C still i wont ever use TB and gona set cpu 99% on windows 7 power manegement.
(but what this tests were done on summer time around 30C ambient temp) idle temp seems 39/40C now,
altough it was lower before like 36/37C, not sure if my room ambient temp got higher or the thermal paste is now a crap useless thing lol...
My laptop makes 7 months old now so that might be it seeing the litle diference.

Playing Phantasy Star Online with turbo boost disabled wont go higher than 57 to 61C.

Checked today my temps on full load gaming and idle:
(No Turbo Boost/ Ambient Temp around 30C, i got no lags on Dynasty Warriors 7 eitheir and requires good cpu lol)
The GPU temp there is of Radeon as i tested with GPUZ too.

[captainkronos]

Ok, I've narrowed it down to 3 possibilities:

A. the SSD has gone bad
B. there's a corrupt system file
C. virus

I finally figured out how to disable restart upon BSOD, & wrote that code down along with the errors I receive in Windows.

The errors in windows are related to: "inpageerror" and "inpagecofire"

The BSOD code is stop: 0x000000f4

Not sure what I'm going to do to narrow it down further. I'm contemplating just doing a clean install & seeing if it pops back up versus diagnosing the hell out of it to fix a file when it might not even be the issue.

[otase]

lol no one here replys more?
also i noticed even on high end demanding games both cards are still in use o_O

I mean Radeon is called and i saw a 39% max gpu load, but the integrated one is also used o_O,
no wonder Radeon max heat was 50C so far o_O cause both cards being used o_O;

[otase]

People just leting you know, dont ever disable AMD External events service!
that reduces 4 Celsisu on CPU at least (both idle or under load)
so dont ever listen to people who disable it or set manual lmao. (to take efect it needs to start automaticaly at boot)

[ehancock]

Nobody really chimed in on my wanting to upgrade to an i7.

I see that our laptop came with a i7-2630QM in some configurations, probably mostly due to cost. I'm looking to go with an i7-2670QM which i'm sure won't be much different in terms of heat output. Probably going to happen sometime within the next week so i'll let you guys know!

Also after repasting my cpu i'm getting ~mid 70's after a few hours of gaming on my i5