Acer Aspire 8930G Owner's Lounge

Just thought Id add this here, if any of you are having trouble when gaming with games slowing down,lag,low fps (throttling) then unclewebb has made a program that fixes these issues, I couldnt play any games on my 8930 without it keep lagging, with this new program I can play most games on very high (slightly lower res though) and they run nice a smooth all day.
The program is called throttlestop, it can be found here.......

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=403988&page=52

Download link on page 53

 

Thanks for the quick reply, but i cannot seem to download Empowering technology software :S is there another place where i can get this from?

 

Sorry I dont have the time to look but you need to download
empowering technology framework first before you can get any of the other apps to work, eg epower ect.

The Acer site is not showing any option to download this, mmm, you will have to google it and try and find it, if you cant, I have all my drivers for the acer 8930 and there is empowering technology on there to somewhere (I have so many discs Ill have to search for it)

I should be on later, so let me no if you dont have any luck...

 

im just finding 2006 versions of the Empowering Technology, i've been searching for ages this forum was one of my last resorts.

Atm I don't have the correct AHCI driver no matter where i get it from :S ( all my driver detecter software say it's out of date without exception.

I'm currently running some weird Realtek HD Audio driver which is running uber quiet. ( not sure i even have the Nvidia HD Audio driver )

The touchpad to the left of the keyboard isn't responsive except for the mute button.

 

Well you've come to right place, someone on here will sort it for you, Ill pm some of the guys on here for you, I will try and make some time and search for the disc and upload it somewhere for you

 

Ok the touchpad on the left(cinedash), try this, shutdown laptop unplug from mains, take battery out for a min, pt battery back in,plug back mains,boot, does it work now?

Yes I had the trouble with quite realtek drivers, downloading realtek r240 sorted the problem out for me.
After its installed and working, right click the sound icon in the task bar and click playback devices, click the speakers....realtek audio,check levels are max, selected dolby prologic in enancments, should be ok now

In truth, I wouldnt both with the acer software, it just slows your laptop down, I dont have any acer software on mine

 

Ok Ive found it......
Empowering technology software


http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads_gd.html

NOTE..If your runnng a different OS to the one in the link, you must change it first, let me know what works and what doesnt, cinedash ect...

 

yeah that fixed the cinedash.

realtek r240 do you know what version? and does it work in contrast with the dolby home theatre?

its looking troublesome enough finding the software i may give up on that for now.

 

Did you see my link for the Empowering technology software above, Ill also get the link for the sound driver, so much for not having the time, haha, oh well it was only dinner I guess

 

I've tried that link before i install the framework first which it says is ok but when i try to instal another piece of empowering technology it just fails on me.

Currently downloading the Realtek High Definiton Audio Driver 2.40 will post again after restart, thanks for the help so far.

Edit: cant see any "Dolby Pro logic" under enhancements. Soundcard is ALC 889 for reference..

 

Sorry, its under the dolby tab, the one after enhancements, my mistake, please see attachments.
Is the sound better now, is it 5.1 surround?
haha Ive just noticed ive not got dolby pro logic clicked, one of those days, I need to change that on mine now

 

maxiiboii your better off going here
http://www.acer.co.uk/acer/service....tx1g.c2att92=122&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=2980211862

 

i must have downloaded the wrong one a dolby tab does not show up for me

i bought mine from currys who buy all the rights from acer, and so acer will not help me in their customer support and i would have to pay £76 for an annual fee for support where it would take 4-6 weeks sending it to them and then recieving it to fix the problem.

 

sorted the driver out. Thanks for help

 

Yeah no probs........

 

i gave the link so you could check and download the drivers and programs you need, there is no need to pay for any of that its free

 

forgot this is a rep based forum +rep aswel dont know if it will help much

thanks, i used some of the drivers off that, but they are all out of date so i prefer to get the more up to date drivers from the individual hardware makers site.

 

thats what i do too, but its the best place to start
and the only place to get the programs

 

how do i find out if i have the suyin or other camera? :S

 

Hi, it is the suyin camera driver for 1.0M...
Chris

 

Hi Guys, Im thinking of modding my back casing on my acer 8930 (the small one you take off to get to the fan ect), does anyone know where I can get a replacement from so that if I were to sell it I could replace it with the new one?

 

Does anyone know if it's safe to remove this panel regarding voiding the warranty? My laptop is dying for a clean but I have like 2.5 years left on it, so I'd hate to lose it

 

What does the new BIOS do? Is there a list of bugs it fixes? What mods have been added to it?

 

yes its fine to remove
you have to take it off if you want to add another hard drive, so they havent sealed the cover

 

no acer never seem to tell what was fixed etc and for some reason they have pulled 1.14 from there website again

 

I've lost half my drive. There used to be an acer c drive and a data drive d. The data drive is gone. Any help?

 

Right Click "My Computer" > "Manage"

Then Click "Disk Managment" in the new window. Im guessing that may help you, but im not too familiar with it myself, so Google!

Ps. More info would help e.g. any new stuff installed, what you did etc

 

Also check if it is listed in your bios

 

The part number for the fan
23.AP50N.001
Google the number on ebay.

 

You have to remap the D:\
As the other poster have said simply go disk management.

 

Thanks for your time, sorted it now, still not sure if Ill do this mod yet

 

If you do, keep a nice photo record for us please

 

My hard drive still loads and something else still loads in the BIOS which I presume is the other partition.

I checked disk management and it states the partition is there (albeit without any of the 16GB of music - not important but still..). When I right click it, the only option is "help". I can't assign it anything. :s

I didn't install anything and I just deleted some pictures from my PC. I haven't changed any program settings etc. I tried a restore which didn't fix the problem.




My girlfriend may have ejected the partition (if possible, got no idea) accidentally when trying to eject her usb drive (from that icon in the start menu). But i'm not sure if she did or not, and it doesn't explain why all the files are gone.

 

Yes I will do, you see the problem is there is no vent where the CPU is seated so my cryo lx cooler would be alot more beneficial if I could make a vent there for the air to blow into and cool the CPU more efficiently.

 

To me it looks like your partition has somehow changed into a hidden EISA recovery partion, if you don't mind losing whats on the drive you can try the following

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/...en-recovery-or-diagnostic-partition-in-vista/

FYI - Take my advice with care, im not a techie

EDIT. By doing the above, I don't think the partition would be physically formatted so you may have a chance to recover your data using Undelete tools, but like I said before, I'm not sure!

 

Yes, the Acer PSD tool didn't work after the drive disappeared so I removed that. I think the two events are related.

Do those instructions work for Windows 7? There was nothing important on the drive other than music (16GB), but I have them on another computer, albeit in a very disordered way.

 

Yes that method works on Windows 7

 

Cheers. Fixed the problem. No idea why it became hidden or why all the files were deleted but got the hard drive back - least it wasn't anything broken inside the laptop. Music is gone but don't really mind.

Now I just have to get the screen fixed and all will be good again. hehe.

 

Nice ... I bet it was Acer PSD that broke it lol

 

Any update on keyboard lag problem ?

 

Ok, well I restarted PC, installed some updates from windows update, and the drive has gone again. What is going on here :s

 

hmmmm misbehaving software, guess you need to hunt it down

 

Those darn gremlins are back again

 

BTW guys, acer released a new sound patch in their site. Don't know if this is 2.40 or not.

Every time I use part disk to fix the problem and then restart, the drive goes missing again. I don't know what to do know

 

use "msconfig" to disable startup items one by one and eliminate them till you find the culprit

Start menu then type "msconfig", in "General" tab select "Selective Startup" then in "startup" tab tick bare minimum to your knowledge and start adding one each reboot. Long process but still, it might get you your answer!

 

On a side note; I found a really nice piece of software (free) for people who use their computers alot (Late night). I'll let you guys read up on it, but I recommend it highly.

http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

 

Any news if anyone tried to upgrade to 8GB ram if the laptop can handle it?

 

I've just upgraded to low timmings ram. I bought 4GB of hyperX 5-5-5-15 (I had samsung 7-7-7-20) and now WEI gives me the mark of 7.5 =) besides the games load a quite faster.

 

Hi
did you install 4gb or 8gb of ram ? where did you get the ram from and how much ?
got any more info on the ram as i might think of doing this upgrade if it makes a big difference .Mine has Elpida DDR3 installed at moment .
Did you have to do any adjustments or did it auto detect ram timing ?

Is this it - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-072-KS
If thats it what about this with 7-7-7-20 timing - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-074-KS

Any help most appreciated
Karl

 

yeah i`d be interested to know that too
im sure i read somewhere that its 4gig max though