Need help by real experts! - Brandnew Acer Aspire Timeline 1810TZ G3-Switch not working after formating

Hello everyone,

I hope that somebody can help me with my problem (or point me a rough direction which way to go).

My girlfriend gave me a brandnew Aspire Timeline 1810TZ with build in G3 (UMTS) for Christmas. When i played around with the preinstalled system (Windows 7 Home Premium x64), I could use the hardware switch in the front of the chassis to enable/ disable the build-in G3-Module.

But as you know, the preinstalled OS are normally very slow, so i formatted the System and installed Windows 7 Professional x64. After installation of all drivers from the Acer website, the switch for enabling the G3 didn't worked anymore! I reformated again with Windows 7 Home Premium x64, but there was the same Picture: No, response from the G3-Switch.

The funny thing is: G3 and WLAN share the same physical hardware switch (you have to flip it to the left to enable/disable G3, and to enable/ disable WLAN you have to flip it to the right).

Flipping the switch to the right activated WLAN without any problem!

I have no idea how to fix this (tried every driver i could find).

So I hope that here is some expert with a higher level of knowledge that can help me.

Anyhow, help is every form is highly appreciated!

Thx in advance.


(I am not a native english speaker, so please forgive me if some of my formulations are somehow crude... )

 

you need to reinstall the acer 3g software.

 

Those hardware switches are controlled by Acer's Launch Manager software - was that among the ones you installed?
Otherwise, use the recovery DVDs you (hopefully) burned and go back to the factory default state.

 

Hi! I installed of course both, the 3G-Software and the Launch Manager Software, but it changed nothing.

I have no recovery DVD created, but there must be another way, to tell my OS that it should use the Switch for the desired function!

Any other guesses?