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    Aspire 5720 Bios

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Chromakey, Aug 23, 2008.

  1. Chromakey

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    Hi all,

    Can someone confirm the most recent bios for the aspire 5720, the information i have for the current version is acer nettling v1.17. Having looked on the acer support site the latest is v1.40 can this be confirmed as it seems a big jump.

    thanx in advance
     
    Chromakey, Aug 23, 2008
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    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    there have been many versions in between,, i've tested every version,, and there should be a 1.43 or even a 1.44... you must be checking the US site or something... i know forsure that the europe site
    support.acer-euro.com
    has atleast ver 1.42 if not higher...

    i'm currently running 1.44 w/ no issues... maybe 1.45 will have some new features?
     
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    Thank you, I thought i was checking Acer europe, I'll have a look. Do you know if any of the updates fix the ricoh sd card reader issue?
     
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    i've not heard of a fix... what size SD card are you trying to use... if i recall correctly 4gig cards will not work... i'm not sure if some 2 gig cards work depending on card's internal structure (# of chips inside).

    as best i recall that driver was written before the HIGH CAPACITY cards were common-place, and the drivers were not really written with them in mind?

    is that the problem you are having?
     
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    It's a 2gb Kingston card, windows 'dings' when I insert the card and straight away it 'dings' again as it unmounts. I've tried all the fixes I've read about, infosys.1 and moving inf files from one place to another, hotfixes and patches, but nothing seems to solve it. If I use an external reader windows has no problems reading the card. It seems a common problem with no answer.
     
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    since i don't have a card reader in my laptop, i can't really do much to help you out. i know that the problem has to be in one of two places... it could be the card-reader and it's supporting chipset that converts the data and interfaces it to the USB port, or it could be a driver limitation. I'm not sure which it is most likely to be.... i'm not even sure there will be a fix, if it's just a driver issue then maybe it will get resolved... but if it's a limitation of a cheap piece of hardware then we will likely never see a fix.

    too bad i can't be more positive... but i try to be honest
     
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    Thanx for you help, at last I've found a site with good honest advice.

    Thank you
     
    Chromakey, Aug 23, 2008
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