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    Acer 8930G - Problem adding 2nd hard drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Big Col, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. Big Col

    Big Col Notebook Guru

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    I recently purchased an Acer 8930G and am very pleased with it. I decided to upgrade the hard disk in it so I bought 2 x 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue.

    I re-installed the OS via factory restore DVD's onto the 1st hard disk, everything works fine. I insert the 2nd hard drive, it shows it Windows, there is some slow down though, the machine will randomly crash and not respond, am I looking at a faulty hard drive here?

    Thoughts? Anyone else had issues addig a second hard drive?
     
    Big Col, Oct 28, 2009
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    Big Col Notebook Guru

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    Just another question for anyone who has put a 2nd hard drive in their 8930G, does it require a special part for the bay to keep it in place?
     
    Big Col, Oct 29, 2009
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  3. spaanplaat

    spaanplaat Notebook Consultant

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    Have you tried with only one drive? Is it acting the same way? You can try to reformat the second drive (perhaps something went wrong?). You can also try to boot it up with only one drive installed and when windows is up and running add the second drive and see what is does. If it crashes again I think you have a faulty drive.

    You can also try to connect it to a pc and run diagnostics from there.

    I have 2x momentus drives but I noticed no slow down whatsoever. You just have to put at least 2 screws in place for the drive to be fixed in the bay.
     
    spaanplaat, Oct 30, 2009
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  4. Big Col

    Big Col Notebook Guru

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    I have tried it with only the one drive and it's fine. I'm going to put the original hard drive in as a spare over the weekend and give that a go, if that drives works fine as a 2nd hard disk then I know it's the new drive that I bought that is faulty. I'll try reformatting it etc but I am not confident.

    I've got a returns authorisation to send it back.
     
    Big Col, Oct 30, 2009
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  5. blackwebdk

    blackwebdk Notebook Enthusiast

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    I notice you have this written in your specs?

    "18.4" Full HD LCD

    Am I mistaken or is there an aspire 8930g that actually has a Full HD display that can go above 1680x945 resolution? Because my own sure can't and based on what I've found on the internet there's doesn't seem to be any who can?
     
    blackwebdk, Oct 30, 2009
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  6. chriscatt

    chriscatt Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi, mine does indeed display at full HD as well...
    Chris
     
    chriscatt, Oct 30, 2009
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  7. Tinderbox (UK)

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    yes the 8930G has an FullHD 1920x1080 screen , double check as i have heard some version have a low res screen.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Oct 30, 2009
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  8. Big Col

    Big Col Notebook Guru

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    Had to send the laptop off for repair in the end, it had the mainboard replaced.
     
    Big Col, Jan 17, 2010
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