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    acer 5315 fix shutdown overheating issues. no dont thank me :)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by accesstech, Jun 15, 2011.

  1. accesstech

    accesstech Newbie

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    The Acer 5315 isn’t that bad of a machine, however there are one or two things you have to be very careful of, if you are buying to install a fresh o/s the likely hood is that you will end up overheating the laptop.
    The fan speed on this is controlled by Acer e power management, so without that you’ll end up with a laptop that keeps shutting down every 5 or ten minutes.
    The fan is of very poor design, if you remove the rear of the laptop the fan may well look clean however if you disassemble the fan you will find an internal grill structure that WILL be clogged, it’s a very poor design flaw.
    If you purchase one of these with a bios revision- pre 1.4 you will find the machine overheats when coming out of sleep mode or powering up?
    For some reason Acer decided not to spin the fan on boot up, so you will need a bios upgrade, takes 2 minutes and can be done through windows but be careful.. IF YOUR MACHINE OVERHEATS DURING BIOS UPDATE YOU WILL KILL YOUR LAPTOP it will be unfixable
    ! I stripped mine cleaned the fan and put the laptop in the fridge for 20 minutes before attempting to update the bios, however i was running windows 7 which fyi will overheat this machine,
    The gpu stays around 70c which is 2 hot for any gpu to run at all the time. Given all that, once you have done everything and put xp or vista on with Acer e power, you will have a user friendly machine that will complete most everyday tasks with ease
     
    accesstech, Jun 15, 2011
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  2. chris9191

    chris9191 Notebook Guru

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    it happens in all laptops, they need cleaning every now and then.

    its not a bad design flaw,

    you cannot keep a fan from dust
     
    chris9191, Jun 15, 2011
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