Comments on: Cheap Notebook for Gaming: The Acer AS5520G

By: methode

methode — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:45:28 +0000

I don’t know the eMag.ro website/eshop so I can’t state anything regarding that. The Acer Service however in western Europe is quite fast.

The Scorpionon might be right, but I think that you won’t succeed by simply cleaning the vents and radiators. If it acts like that since summer, I guess they completely failed since then so a change will be required.

I didn’t have to open Acer notebooks yet, but usually they are not so complicated to open like a Vaio for example. It’s a matter of a few bolts if am not mistaken.

Please do post back with updates please, i’d be interested.

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By: A.Faith

A.Faith — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:17:24 +0000

thanks for your fast answer. I think I will try to open it myself, because I bought it from eMag.ro and sending it back to them and wait ~20 days to come back from Acer Service it will drive me crazy. I also have to work over the internet and the old desktop is not very good for what I have to do.

anyway, I’ve also contacted a blogger that bought the same laptop as me and he confirmed that he also had a few minor problems related to overheating (http://www.scorpiono.com/personal/notebook-acer-as5520g-402g16mi-dual-core-tl-58-19ghz-2gb-160gb-bluetooth/).

I was wondering if you ever opened an Acer laptop and if you encountered any specific problems? I want to be prepared if anything goes wrong..

By: methode

methode — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:28:04 +0000

I’m sorry, but there’s no solution in this case which does not involve spending money.

The overheating most likely is caused by one of the coolers which started to malfunction in the summer. The cheap ones tend to fail when the air is already hot around them.

So, to be sincere, you have two solutions:
1. bite the bullet and go back to the shop even if the warranty has expired and you have to pay for the repair and the new cooler(s).
2. if you’re a techie person, you may want to remove the notebook’s back, turn it on and see which cooler is malfunctioning. When found, release it from its socket and smoothly pull it out, then run in a specialized shop to buy a new one with the old in your hand. Based on your location, I would guess that UltraProComputers have coolers for this notebook, one of our authors used to test products from their shop(s).

The worse case scenario is that you already baked one of the hardware. Let’s hope you did not…

By: A.Faith

A.Faith — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:11:37 +0000

I’m having a terrible problem with this kind of laptop I’ve bought one year ago. It’s heating at about 100 degrees Celsius and I can’t even reinstall my OS.

This kind of problems started during the summer, when I blamed the hot temperatures outside for the malfunctioning of my laptop, but today it seems failed to serve me.

Have you heard anything about this kind of problems? Can you give me a good advice, except sending it back to the shop I’ve bought it from? I believe my warranty expired and I’m in a pretty bad situation.