Tricks and treats
Created by Michael Walsh) on Jul 29 2007 | Tagged as: Acer
I decided to put this page up because some of you have really come up with some amazing tricks and advice I’d never have thought of and each time I keep forgetting to write them down.
I’m going to start the ball rolling with a great one from Andy.
Did you know you can use your Sony Ericsson as a remote control?
I pair it up with my pc which is simple enough. I then found a handy tool on the phone itself called remote control and with that it connects to the pc and allows me to move the cursor, click left and right etc. Quite handy when lying in bed and watching a movie on a big screen or whatever. Im sure there would be some java apps floating around the internet for non-sony ericsson users.
Brilliant! Anyone got any more???
on 30 Jul 2007 at 10:56 am 1
Andy (Check me out!) said …
Little handy tip when using this feature is when you have a friend round, convince them that you have a voice activated mouse!!….with your phone in your hand and moving the cursor when you say something they will be very impressed(and not suspect the phone to be a cursor), but also annoyed as when you ask them to try it, it doesnt work, and you keep on telling them that theyre not saying it right! Hours of fun! (thanks to my gullable friend Nathaniel!)
on 05 Aug 2007 at 9:06 pm 2
Jing (Check me out!) said …
Wow, just tried it with the bluetooth dongle Michael, and it works perfectly. Haha. Many practical jokes to be attempted here. Great tip Andy.
Gonna make me very lazy now though. Remote controls are gluttony.
on 14 Aug 2007 at 7:28 pm 3
Iain (Check me out!) said …
Keyboard issues:
As several people with American 5920s have reported problems with their keyboards, the first thing I did with my UK machine is check that all was as it should be, and it was.
Last week I updated the firmware on my 5920, and afterwards I was getting problems when typing in words like “look” and “took”.
After a bit of testing in Word, and then IE/Firefox, I found that whenever I had to type a double character (two backspaces, double “o”, double numbers, etc), the second one didn’t register. This didn’t happen before I made the firmware update.
In the keyboard applet in the control panel, I changed the repeat delay to be at its shortest and the repeat rate to be at its fastest, and this resolved the issue.
Just thought I’d post this in Tips and Tricks for reference in case anyone else experiences the same.
on 04 Sep 2007 at 7:00 pm 4
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
I’m going to close this page for the simple reason that I can’t figure out how to write new posts on it. I’ll try and move everything over to the main page and archive them under tricks and treats and see if that works.
on 24 Sep 2007 at 9:39 pm 5
Allen (Check me out!) said …
hi again i’ve another question do you know how to hook up a bluetooth module to the 3623?
on 25 Sep 2007 at 10:16 am 6
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Hi Allen, If it’s simple Bluetooth connectability you’re looking for how about a simple Dongle like the one I’ve been giving away for the Aspire 5920 reviews. It’s a simple plug and play device. Have a look here
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on 06 Oct 2007 at 10:08 pm 7
wander01 (Check me out!) said …
Hi Folks! I have some issues with games on my 5920. actualy every game freeze when i try to run them. It has to do sthing with the crappy factory nvidia driver. I tried some modded stuff but it was always worse than before. I hope someone can tell me sthing useful…
on 15 Oct 2007 at 7:50 pm 8
Gareth (Check me out!) said …
hi, when i start up my Acer Aspire 9304 after it loads up it just comes up black screen and and left it on but it wont load soo please let me know if you know what is wrong !
on 16 Oct 2007 at 3:48 pm 9
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Hi Gareth,
Could be you have faulty RAM (this happened to me) or even the motherboard.
In either case, your best bet is to call Acer support and have it checked.
on 01 Nov 2007 at 8:02 pm 10
Laird (Check me out!) said …
Acer OrbiCam program produces this error when run: “Acer OrbiCam.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”
The solution is probably that you have created subfolders in your My Pictures folder. Just move everything out of your My Pictures folder — totally empty — and it will likely work again.
Source: robert_lopez@tx.acer.com
on 12 Nov 2007 at 6:36 am 11
Rail Ranger (Check me out!) said …
In my quest to really roll my sleeves up and fix a problem that has bugged me since the first day I got this Acer Aspire 5100-5674’s Orbicam problem….I went online to see if Microsoft had a fix for the bug, or if Acer had a fix for the bug. No surprise to me to find that both resources have their finger’s poked hard up their asses.No….they did not have a fix for me. So, I used my favorite search engine….Dogpile and typed in a search query to see what relavant hits would come up. In that search result, some user that goes by the name of AcerGuy has a web page of the same name, and has diligently tried to help other Acer users on how to overcome their woes…..Of course, naturally, this piqued my interest, and I clicked on a link relating to the Orbicam problem. Of what I can gather, it’s Vista related, and Microsoft’s generic drivers. Nobody seems to have the fix though. I went to Acer’s support site, and realized through all my search queries, I was communicating with a bot, not a human being, and made my realization of this public, and ridiculed the site. I put it on the back burner, went to bed, and slept on it. Upon morning and on my commute to work, I decided to tackle the issue one more time.
I’d double click on the Oricam icon, and once again got that oh so familiar dialogue box that it needs to go online and search for a solution. Of course, I’m nowhere for the wireless to hook up, and closed the program’s dialogue box. My mouse was still hovering over the icon, and I realized that the icon only represents a link to a location somewhere on my hard drive. So, I used my favorite utility, Power Desk to show me the location the link refers to, and found it to be in the Windows folder under “BUVC_AP”. Keep in mind…I’ve done the updates, re-installs, etc to no avail, I opened that folder to find an executable called “Acer OrbiCam.exe”, I clicked on it, and nothing happened, just the usual frustrations…..Then, I scrutinized the tree some more, and found a “BisonC07″ folder, opened that folder and found two executables in that one…”BisonM07.exe” and “LiveCa07.exe”. Now, keep in mind, I’ve done my homework, followed all the useless tips, of which going to Device Manager and locating the imaging device that’s built into this laptop,I learned that it was a Bison driver, the Icon for the “BisonM07.exe” looked suspiciously like a winrar or zip icon, (compressed file to the newbie) so I decided to click on the “LiveCa07.exe” instead. Guess what, the camera went to life and I saw myself on the desktop of this laptop. I closed the program, clicked on it a few times to be sure I’m not seeing things, and promptly minimized the folder I was in, right clicked on the desktop icon, and sent it to the trash bin. (for the newbie, doing this only deletes the reference the icon represents, not the program) then I brought the open folder back into focus, resized the window, so I can drag the “LiveCa07.exe” file to the desktop. Oooops, it moved the file to the desktop, I didn’t want that to happen, so I copied the icon that’s on the desktop and pasted it back into the folder again, in case, somehow that desktop icon’s exe file gets hosed, I have a copy I can use in the future again. After that, I clicked on the icon from both locations, the desktop and the folder, to be sure the file works. Now you who reads this information now have a fix for your problem.
Update….two weeks later, I’ve discovered the sound doesn’t work while using the Orbicam :(. Shit….another bitch to overcome….Why does it have to be so damn hard to make what I bought, do what it’s supposed to do? Messing around with the Realtek drivers, I somehow got the built-in microphone to work, but yet it still doesn’t record sound while the Orbicam is working! Damn!!!
I’ve been through this before on my desktop rig outfitted with an ATI 8500DV, hooking up the cable wire to my video card, I was able to receive video from cable tv, but the sound was blaringly way to loud and distorted. The Creative Sound Blaster was the culprit and took forever to tweek, in order for the audio to sound right while viewing captured video content off the Comcast cable connection. Next, I put a splitter on the cable leaving the cable box, one cable going to the tv, the other to the video card, now able to capture premium content, way coool eh? That was several years ago. Now, I just hook up the dvd/vhs dvr from RCA to the Direct TV dvr box and capture premium content without the use of any pc, and my wife is really happy with what she can do with it, without enlisting my knowhow, to bail her out of her problems, which leaves me to my interests; such as this bullshit Acer product’s built-in problems.
I have yet to figure out how to make the RCA’s burned content be seen by my pc’s, both laptop and desktop to be able to copy them, (just to be able to do it, that is). Example, yesterday, was my youngest daughter’s baby shower, which I recorded with the JVC camcorder; now I need to send it through the dvr and burn it to disc. Once done, I need to make copies of the baby shower for all those women that were present, so they can re-live the experience. To make copies, I have yet to find a dvd to dvd dvr, and make 1:1 copies, or transfer the raw footage either from the JVC to the PC and make multiple copies with my two dual layer burners, or copy disc (fresh from the dvr) to multiple blanks with the pc. Either way, it’s a hassle, and my pc doesn’t recogonize the dvr format’s disc, to copy, it can play it, just not copy it. What a drag.
If the reader is perusing this communique, minus edited material, I hope the editor left in the pertinent information needed so the similar problems experienced can be addressed and corrected, and the reader walks away feeling accomplished. Now, back to that damn audio issue.
Rail Ranger
on 12 Dec 2007 at 12:14 am 12
Sai Reddy (Check me out!) said …
Hey, Whats up?
I have an Acer 5610-2762 and I have buttons on the right side of the laptop looking at the screen correctly. When I say side, I don’t mean on the side of the laptop, the side next to the keyboard. About the buttons….they don’t work. I deleted something by accident and now I can’t increase, decrease, play/pause, anything with the buttons. Do you know how I could get them back?
on 13 Dec 2007 at 4:35 pm 13
Joe (Check me out!) said …
Hello gentlemen,
I am looking for an angel among you very knowledgeable people. I think I have the same problem as Sai Reddy. I have done something to make eRecovery on my Acer dissapear. This is causing me a lot of problems because now my media tochpad thing on the right hand side of my laptop dont work. I have an aspire 5920G.
Ill be forever in debt to the bloke who can help me out. I need your brains!
Cheers lads,
Joe
(Great Britain)
on 17 Dec 2007 at 6:24 pm 14
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Hi Sai,
Simone says it sounds like you’ve got problems with Acer Launch Manager.
Make sure you have it installed on your computer by checking the installed programs list in Control Panel and if it’s not there, download it and install it.
Look for it here on the Acer Support website (version 1.17.1e).
on 19 Dec 2007 at 8:14 pm 15
ryu (Check me out!) said …
quick question to all i have the acer 5100 and im trying to connect my bluetooth headset to it… do i need a bluetooth adapter or it should connect with no problems.. please help.. thnxs
on 30 Dec 2007 at 9:44 am 16
Gregg E. (Check me out!) said …
I have an Aspire 5315-2153. That was the $348 USD WalMart special. It came with a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive.
I wanted to make a set of recovery DVDs, but how without a DVD burner?
I took the cover off my 12 bay “Mega Tower 2000″ (that’s when I got the case- it was originally a 300Mhz PII and has seen many, many upgrades) and use my USB 2.0 to IDE cable to temporarily parasite the laptop to the DVD burner in the desktop to make the DVDs.
Then I reformatted the hard drive, wiping out the PQSERVICE partition to get that 10gigs back, and installed Vista Ultimate 32bit and all the latest drivers. Of course I used vLite to build a custom Vista disc without the non-English language stuff, drivers for hardware that can’t be upgraded since it’s a laptop, Windows Defender and a few other annoying things from Microsoft. You can save quite a lot of space by leaving out drivers for hardware you don’t have and never will.
It runs much better without all the junkware Acer shoveled onto the poor thing. Norton “Internet Security” may as well be called “Slow Down Your Computer”. It’s horrible bloatware and keeps butting in between the user and the computer. To select a folder in the left side of Explorer, you have to click it slowly THREE TIMES because the first two times Norton slaps your hand “No!” and de-selects the folder like you’re a three year old going after the butcher knives.
The other major annoying space hog was Acer Game Station, which is just a bunch of game DEMOS from sites like PopCap. What made it annoying is it didn’t have a SINGLE uninstaller to selectively/completely remove them. To uninstall the demos, each one had to be removed individually.
One GOOD thing about the recovery discs, both the CD and DVD versions, is you can make discs that will return it to “Out of Box” condition AND discs with all the software and drivers individually installable for people who want some of that stuff back after doing a clean Windows install.
Acer Game Station will install on XP, but why would you want to when you get ALL the game demos, no choice of what you want?
Soon after doing the “nuke and pave” job, I got a Toshiba-Samsung L632D DVD burner off eBay for $27.50. But it was originally in a DELL. For some who the hell knows why reason, DELL used custom firmware to disable the drive’s ability to use DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM discs. I cured that by flashing it with the latest Toshiba-Samsung non-OEM firmware.
Changing the optical drive in this laptop is super simple. Remove the four screws in the huge cover panel on the bottom. Acer calls it a “Thermal Door”. Use a blunt table knife to carefully pry up around the edges to un-snap it, start next to the rectangular dimple and work around both ways. DO NOT PRY ALONG THE EDGE OPPOSITE THE DIMPLE!! The tabs along that edge are longer, the come out last as you tip the cover up and go in first when reinstalling it.
With the cover off, look for a black screw next to the edge of the opening, just towards the front of the laptop from the dimple. Use a #0 Phillips screwdriver to remove it. Look just under the edge of the plastic to see a small, metal tab. Push it towards the side of the laptop and the drive will slide out. Use the #0 driver to transfer the bracket to your new drive- installing the screws by the numbers 1 2 3 on the bracket. Slide the new drive in until you feel the connector seat and you can see the hole in the bracket through the screw hole in the plastic. Reinstall the screw. (Duh!)
While you have the big cover off, it’s a good time to do a RAM upgrade. For the brave, you can also upgrade the CPU! With the 1.19 BIOS update, the 5315-2153 and other ICL-50 series laptops support “Merom”, “Conroe” and “Conroe Light” core CPUs and possibly others. the Conroe-L Celeron 530 this laptop shipped with will run 64bit XP and Vista.
on 01 Jan 2008 at 7:31 am 17
Bruce (Check me out!) said …
I just picked up an Aspire 5680 on boxing day. When I first got it it had already been setup and used. Initially when I pressed the play/pause button it would launch windows media player if it wasn’t open already. If it was open it just worked normally as play/pause.
I just did a fresh install of Vista as it was crashing constantly, and now the play/pause button doesn’t launch media player. Once it’s open all the media keys work normally, but I liked being able to open media player with the play/pause button.
Anyone know how to get that function back?
on 13 Feb 2008 at 9:04 am 18
Yang Ming (Check me out!) said …
I have Acer Aspire 5580 running on window xp media center. I am having problem with the headphone. When i plug in the headphone, the system can detect the jack in has been plugged in but there is no sound. the internal speaker is working fine. only the headphone is not working. i have installed the latest realtek HD driver.
on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:29 am 19
stevie ashlock (Check me out!) said …
Alright I had the BUVC_AP camera working for a couple of days. And then it just went gray but ,it still pops up and I have tried all the others that are on the computer and but had no luck.So what do you think i should do?
I even tried the LiveCa07 but it says it’s just a sample.So what do i do?anything would be helpful thanks.
on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:32 am 20
stevie ashlock (Check me out!) said …
Oh sry I forgot to tell you I have a Acer Aspire 5610-2328
on 05 Mar 2008 at 7:39 am 21
melchor (Check me out!) said …
hi sir im a technical engr on acer phillippines
iha ve a question regarding camera of acer
when we attach a logitech camera on yahoo messenger the camera is ok BUT
when we attach a suyin camera on yahoo messenger der was no display
pls help us thanks
on 05 Mar 2008 at 7:41 am 22
melchor (Check me out!) said …
y is a suyin camera cannot compatible on yahoo messenger webcam
on 18 Mar 2008 at 6:27 pm 23
henz (Check me out!) said …
Hi,
I have this problem with my aspire 5110 that when im playing some games i cant move well. For example when I push W (forward) and then A or D (left and right) it just goes forward. I have installed some drivers from acer.com like launch manager but it didnt solve the problem.
Oh, and I use Windows Vista
on 27 Mar 2008 at 2:01 am 24
Kei (Check me out!) said …
Hi
I got a Aspire 5100, and i closed the lid one day, and when i started it up, i hear two beeps and it takes me to this black screen and i have the option to press F1 or F2…i tried F1, and it says PXE- media test failure check cable and it keeps on going and never stop…and when i hit F2, it takes me to this setup screen..i tried setting it to default and bascially everything as going into safe mode and it still dont work…i even used acer recovery 3 times and i still have this problem…HELP
on 29 Mar 2008 at 3:31 am 25
evelyn (Check me out!) said …
i think i uninstalled something because my built in mic no longer exists i have no recording device ive tried everything pleae help i have apire 5610z box says 5610-2013 runs vista and no bluetooth or cam on it
on 31 Mar 2008 at 6:52 am 26
Troy H (Check me out!) said …
I have just purchased an acer 5920g and i have been playing with the acer arcade quick boot. I have noticed that it does not play Divx movies, and was wondering if there is a way of adding the divx codec to this xp boot setup?
Thanks
on 03 Apr 2008 at 11:51 am 27
Inflixter (Check me out!) said …
I am a forceware hater, who believes that if you shell out the loot for a laptop, you should set it up the way you like it. Now saying all that I have just brought the Acer Aspire 7720 and completely nuked it to get rid of the 3 partitions (which will eventually choke out vista and page file) took every precaution to protect myself by copying all drivers needed. Re-installed Vista Home Premium updated all drivers to latest drivers available loaded all the software that I wanted on my one large partition 149 Gigs or 160million bytes everything works better except THE WEBCAM….. so I went back to ACER website downloaded the drivers and apps for SUYIN AND BISON (of course webcam is not identified in device manager). By features I believe the webcam is a Bison but reguardless the drivers do not work and apps are greyed out. I have tried the remove photo trick and to force the drivers and has failed horribly. So of course you know that I am seeking help.
on 03 Apr 2008 at 1:51 pm 28
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Inflixter,
You’re in the wrong thread. Actually I’m thinking of closing it because the whole damn thing is off topic…
Anyway, try this one to see which webcam you have and instructions on what you need and where to get it (makes no difference what your notebook is).
Device Manager should point you in the right direction.
It’s a long post (it’s a big problem) but hopefully worth it.
on 09 Apr 2008 at 5:07 am 29
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
A brief version of remapping Aspire 5920G bluetooth key to “toggle power settings” that does not have bluetooth device build-in. This guide is reversible, all software based.(only tested on the 5920 model, I might get a chance to test it one 5720 soon)
Note: if anythign does go wrong, just uninstall launch manager and reinstalled(installer can be located and downloaded via acer support site)
Contents
1. Theory
2. What you need
3. Tricking Launch Manager (LM)
4. Binding the bluetooth key
5. Conclusion
6. Credit
1. Theory, Launch Manager program takes over the special input keys such as the bluetooth, wifi, default internet browser, email, and the media center/acer arcade buttons. the bluetooth button is advanced button avaliable to control the acer’s machine only, but since windows automatically understand what the default internet browser’s input is to open up the default Internet browser such as Internet Explore, this means that you can still use all the other buttons normally(other then the bluetooth key) WITHOUT the launch manager software running or installed. Since you can “bind” what Default browser, email, and the “e” buttons via launch manager itself, but not the bluetooth key. What we want to achieve is to trick the Launch Manager(LM from now on) to think the bluetooth button is the default browser key, that way your bluetooth key is remappable via LM panel binding as the default browser key. later on, remap the key to the downloaded the sample package I build for the toggle power switching.
2. What you need:
Your Aspire 5920G
LMcustomized.exe -
http://techdaily.uni.cc/5920/tricks/LMcustomized.exe
Launch Manager installed
3. Tricking Launch Manager
right click on the LM icon and click exit.
run the LMcustomized.exe downloaded from my site
4. Binding the bluetooth key
start LM from the start menu, double click on the icon that looks like the one from the installer
click add for your “3rd” key (one used to be your browser button) to the following exactly
E:\power\Power.lnk
click ok, then ok
Done!
5. The bluetooth button should now toggle from high power to low power, if you press the first time it did not work, press it again, since it might be on setting to switch to your CURRENT power plan, pressing it again will switch to the opposite profile
6. Feel free to mod the stuff in the power folder, it is possible to have the key to toggle through numbers of profiles, edit my .cmd files to check how I did those. feel free to distribute this package to your friends and so on, but PLEASE CREDIT MY IDEA! I came up with this idea, I was not be able to find any related topics using google, I had to figure out all the stuff myself!
Enjoy your new cool power button, I made a battery sticker to cover up my bluetooth button, you may like to do the same XD
Morris Lee
on 09 Apr 2008 at 5:10 am 30
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
btw, PLEASE read the comments in the LMcustomized.exe comments for the changes I have done to LM manager
Morris Lee
on 09 Apr 2008 at 5:25 am 31
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Small note to Michael Walsh, sorry for the double post, but I made some mistakes and some confusing wording in the guide, here is the corrected version
A brief version for Aspire 5920G that does not have bluetooth device build-in, and remapping bluetooth key to “toggle power settings” . This guide is reversible, all software based.(only tested on the 5920 model, I might get a chance to test it one 5720 soon)
Note: if anything does go wrong, just uninstall launch manager and reinstalled(installer can be located and downloaded via acer support site)
Contents
1. Theory
2. What you need
3. Tricking Launch Manager (LM)
4. Binding the bluetooth key
5. Conclusion
6. Credit
1. Theory, Launch Manager program takes over the special input keys such as the bluetooth, wifi, default internet browser, email, and the media center/acer arcade buttons. the bluetooth button is advanced button avaliable to control the acer’s machine only, but since windows automatically understand what the default internet browser’s input is to open up the default Internet browser such as Internet Explore, this means that you can still use all the other buttons normally(other then the bluetooth key) WITHOUT the launch manager software running or installed. Since you can “bind” what Default browser, email, and the “e” buttons via launch manager itself, but not the bluetooth key. What we want to achieve is to trick the Launch Manager(LM from now on) to think the bluetooth button is the default browser key, that way your bluetooth key is remappable via LM panel binding as the default browser key. later on, remap the key to the downloaded the sample package I build for the toggle power switching.
2. What you need:
Your Aspire 5920G
LMcustomized.exe -
http://techdaily.uni.cc/5920/tricks/LMcustomized.exe
Launch Manager installed
3. Tricking Launch Manager
right click on the LM icon and click exit.
run and install the LMcustomized.exe downloaded from my site (READ THE COMMENTS!) click yes at the pop up box at the end, and click ok for the next pop up
4. Binding the bluetooth key
start LM from the start menu. Now you should see the icon that looks like the one from the installer, double click it
click “Add” for your “3rd” key (one used to be your browser button) to the following exactly
C:\Program Files\Launch Manager\power\Power.lnk
click ok, then ok
Done!
5. The bluetooth button should now toggle from high power to low power, if you press the first time it did not work, press it again, since it might be on setting to switch to your CURRENT power plan, pressing it again will switch to the opposite profile
6. Feel free to mod the stuff in the power folder, it is possible to have the key to toggle through numbers of profiles, edit my .cmd files to check how I did those. feel free to distribute this package to your friends and so on, but PLEASE CREDIT MY IDEA! I came up with this idea, I was not be able to find any related topics using google, I had to figure out all the stuff myself!
Enjoy your new cool power button, I made a battery sticker to cover up my bluetooth button, you may like to do the same XD
Morris Lee
on 09 Apr 2008 at 6:46 am 32
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Neat trick for Aspire 5920, yes, the Aspire 5920G’s speakers sounds absolutly amazing, BUT, lets make it better XD
Start, Control Panel, Type “Acer HD Audio Manager” in the search box, click on the “Acer HD Audio Manager”
Once the panel is opened, switch to speaker’s tab, switch the sub-tab to sound effects, select the option for Equalizer as “Powerful”, now go play some music, enjoy desktop quality speaker sounds XD
Morris Lee
on 09 Apr 2008 at 6:52 am 33
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Neat trick for all mouse users.
After a while of use of your mouse, the padding on the bottom start to get scratched up. Mouse no longer seem to “glid” on your desktop surface as when it was new.
To let it glid like before, simply retrieve a piece of letter sized or A4 sized normal photocopying machine paper, fold the paper in half. Now put the folded paper on your desktop, place your mouse on top of the paper, hold the paper down, gently apply pressure and move the mouse in circles for at least 10 times, try it on your desk again, if you think it can be better, continue the process. cheers!!
Morris Lee
on 10 Apr 2008 at 3:46 am 34
ryan (Check me out!) said …
This thing sucks my screen resolution has mysteriously declined to 1024×768 I am not the first and their seems to be no solution.
on 10 Apr 2008 at 6:00 am 35
Michael Walsh (Check me out!) said …
Ryan,
What have you got and what did you do?
on 10 Apr 2008 at 7:47 am 36
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Ryan, what do you mean by “sucks my screen resolution”? the max resolution being limited? did you do anything from my guide? what is the your machine model?
Morris Lee
on 11 Apr 2008 at 9:48 am 37
Gmontel (Check me out!) said …
I got the acer gemstone with media touch. Any idea how I can set the media touch buttons to work with Winamp?
Thnx in advance.
on 11 Apr 2008 at 6:51 pm 38
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
no idea, I never used winamp, and i don’t see any option where I can rebind the keys. just did some search, appearently you can update the driver from Synaptic site, and bind the key using winamp itself
keep trying Gmontel, I am sure there is a solution
Morris Lee
on 17 Apr 2008 at 12:44 am 39
Ryan (Check me out!) said …
Since I last posted I have tried every solution I could find. I have been able to find.Re-installing the chipset drivers did nothing, resetting with e-recovery did nothing.I have an acer aspire-5610z lxaky0×0014 or something with vista.Apparently their was some sort of dummy monitor installed.Now it is not their and under graphics properties their are not the usual options.The notebook still works but their is a black space and fuzzy space on the right and bottom due to the resoution discrepancy.
on 18 Apr 2008 at 1:05 am 40
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
Ryan, sounds more like your graphics card driver problem, try uninstalling your current graphics card driver, should be an intel one. Intel Chipset driver only install the motherboard chip, I don’t think the intel GMA drivers are in there, go to intel’s site and find the driver there. if you can’t find it, after rebooting windows when you uninstallation of your graphics card driver, you should try going to the device manager to install the driver from windows itself. right click on the “VGA compatible Adaptor”, something like that, and click update driver. if windows cannot find the driver, allow it to check online itself, it should then install fine, reboot after it asks you.
Cheers
Morris Lee
on 25 Apr 2008 at 9:37 pm 41
Laird (Check me out!) said …
Fix for Acer Extensa audio problems for systems upgraded to Windows XP
The audio aberrations are caused by the wireless card driver. Most Extensas use a Dell 1390 WLAN minicard (which is an unknown Broadcom chipset.) I got the driver from Dell, but of course it would not install (not a Dell computer…) However, under the extracted folder is a subfolder called DRIVER. Use that to update the drivers in the Control Panel — SYSTEM — Device Manager tool.
Also - many of the Orbicam problems with Vista are at least partly resolved via my previous tip (Tricks and Treats)
on 26 Apr 2008 at 12:20 pm 42
kristalsoldier (Check me out!) said …
Hi…
First…a great site you have here! I have the 5920 but a version, which I guess is very low end as it comes with a GMA X3100. It also came preloaded with Linux. I installed a brand new copy of XP SP2 and am now considering installing Vista Home Premium.
While I like the 5920, I was wondering about the heat - I have been reading of this issue on a number of forums. I also asked the Acer Tech support people here (India) but they had no ideas. What I mean is that on the left hand side, where the palm rests, the area gets quite warm…using SpeedFan other such utilities, I know that the core temperatures are around 50-55 degrees (C), the HDD is generally below 50 degrees and what SpeedFan refers to as Temp 1 is around 60 degrees but when under stress goes up to around 69 degrees. The Acer people told me that the acceptable levels of temperature is around 80 degrees. My questions are thus two-fold: First - is the aceptable temperature of the cores 80 degrees? And second, what are the average operating temperatures of the 5920 - the manual tells me what the acceptable range of temperature should be, but what no one seems to be able to tell me is what are the average temperatures that the 5920 (based on average use - two browser windows, one Word document, one Excel file, and a media player) reflect.
Thanks
on 27 Apr 2008 at 2:58 am 43
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
my aspire 5920 with more powerful 8600m gt (even overclocked now) reaches about 84c ish during gameing, does not get hot on the top surface, the bottom where the exhaust does, so no-worries for you, mine is been running like this since september 2007
on 27 Apr 2008 at 6:50 am 44
kristalsoldier (Check me out!) said …
OK. Thanks. I should also mention that the average ambient temperature where I am now is about 40+ degree, which I suspect increases the temperature by about 5 degrees or so - though I do not know for sure.
I was also wondering if Vista increases the heat of the machine given that it (as I have read) keeps some background processes going on all the time.
Thanks again!
on 27 Apr 2008 at 8:09 am 45
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
I do know for a fact that Vista is a memory hog, my vista is running around 950MB with all other applications(msn, google talk, steam acer stuff…) but for on my desktop, which is barely being used, runs at 758MB right now out of 2GB, so I think it is just depended on how many programs you have installed as a process.(desktop only have 48 background process, the 5920 for me now has 74). Technically, Vista should used more RAM for “efficiency” making sure things run faster, I don’t see much “improvements”. Vista however, benchmarked somewhere I’ve with better battery life on power saver management on the go. Heat is not such a big issue for you there, my usual non-gameing temp is at 58c, so your 5920 is in a better shape then mine~~
on 27 Apr 2008 at 1:27 pm 46
kristalsoldier (Check me out!) said …
Hmmmm….thanks. Very interesting! BTW, is over/under clocking the CPU necessary or even desireable?
Thanks and regards
on 28 Apr 2008 at 3:07 am 47
Morris Lee (Check me out!) said …
the CPU came with my laptop was the T5250, 1.5GHz, fine for average applications auch as Photoshop, all mobile CPU have auto-clock switch, T5250 idle is at 1.0GHz, under load, it will clock itself to 1.5GHz full power. there is no need to overclock or underclock, and may not be desireable, I don’t think you can even do that on the core 2 duo mobile version since I did look into it a while ago.
on 28 Apr 2008 at 8:16 pm 48
Forrest Rowell (Check me out!) said …
Hello, I seem to have an issue with the audio on my Aspire 5920, but I’m not sure were to ask about it so I’ll ask here.
First, the main problem is, whenever the sound is turned on, the microphone picks up any noise from the computer (for example, typing on the keyboard is transmitted very loudly over the speakers) but oddly enough it doesn’t pick up any other noise like say, someone talking. Just computer noises and any tapping on the computer.
is there anyway to keep the integrated microphone from picking up and broadcasting computer noise through the speakers? I went to Control Panel/Sound and disabled the microphone, but it didn’t change anything.
Another issue, whenever the sound is turned on it constantly has a scratching/creaking noise coming from the speakers at random intervals. It seems to come from nowhere without having anything to do with the microphone.
Anyone else have this kind of problem? It kind of ruins the nice virtual 5.1 sound experience… I don’t think it did any of this when I first got the computer.
on 28 Apr 2008 at 10:03 pm 49</