Acer Aspire 8930G Owner's Lounge

Greetings, I'm having a spot of bother with my 8930g, the random reboots, it's already taken it's toll on my SSD, looking under the memory for the motherboard model it would appear that, "none of the above" is the model number to purchase a replacement. Ten years I've had this beast and I'd like to keep using it as a back up. Any information to get me back up and running greatly appreciated.

 

hi I'm going to upgrade my aspire 8930g hardware. which cpu and graphics card would be best? and there is something else I should think about upgrading now I'm in progress

 

Dear all. Does anyone know where i can download Acer aspire 8930 recovery disks? both drives in my laptop have to be changed cause they are faulty and now i what to format my laptop to factory state. can anyone provide a link or can upload the recovery disks? thank you

 

Hey guys sorry to awaken this thread, I'm very late to the party. I upgraded my old Acer Asprice 8390G from T5800 to T9600 alongside 6gb ram, 120gb ssd boot and 320gb HDD storage. It boots fine and seems noticeably quicker. I ran Prime95 on it and no crashes. Only thing that was strange is that the CPU temperature doesn't show properly in HWmonitor. It stays at min 3°C and Max 18° but I can hear the fan loud and think this is wrong. What do you think, am I risking breaking it with this 45nm processor instead of the original 65nm?

 

you tried using other software its weird your temps are showing weird
and using a 45nm is fine certain configs came with a p8600 which is 45nm but the motherboards the same.
either your windows or the cpu has a fault if temps not detecting

 

Hi, I think that is almost impossible, but is there any way to swap the motherboard to a more recent one compatible with connectors and that can be placed replacing the original? I love this laptop.

 

Hello experts. I have a very big problem. Just update with some sort of a 1.21 bios update, and my old 8930G just passed away. The lateral blue lights are on, but the computer won't start anymore. Is there any way to get it from the deaths? I am thinking in buy an interface that can write the Bios Chip on the motherboard and try to rewrite the bios file inside the Bios. It will be possible?

 

Bought one of these and waiting to arrive. How can I determine if it's the quad core variant or the dual core variant without opening it? (as in disassembling it) Seller has posted a few photos with the specs and I see a T6400 CPU but that doesn't really say anything.

Otherwise, how good should I expect the TUBA bass be after all those years? I remember my 2x 6930Gs had issues with the subwoofer membranes being brittle, until I swapped one of them (9600M GT 512, T9400, 6GB DDR2, 1TB+500GB) with a different one from a old and long dead 6530G, and it looked very different to what the other 6930G used.

 

I had one of these very recently, a T6400 is a dual core, the TUBA bass is usually strong on these, but if you have any audio crackling like I did it will be either worn out speakers or the driver, I have my old driver if you'd need it, let me know, also 6gb ram max on dual core board.

 

Also under the ram cover there's a sticker under the ram, if it ends in 004 then it will allow a quad core upgrade