Comments on: Up Close With the Aspire Gemstone Blue (Acer Aspire 8920 Series) http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:25:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jilly http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-23471 Jilly Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:33:54 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-23471 I have had this pit of blue glory for nearly a year now but my cinedash media console has just stopped responding to touch! any help with this little hiccup would be greatly appreciated! I have had this pit of blue glory for nearly a year now but my cinedash media console has just stopped responding to touch! any help with this little hiccup would be greatly appreciated!

]]> By: Pablo http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-22921 Pablo Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:53:27 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-22921 I can´t believe it !!!! Finally and after more than a year of CRASHING/FREEZING and severals OS (Vista 32 - 64 / Ultimate, Enterprise, VM running XP, Win 7 RC 32 - 64, now Win 7 64 RTM Ultimate) I've been able to solve the problem, thank WanderingLoner (and the rest of course). Today I bought a 500GB samsung hard drive and also put the 320GB one as the second disk, so at least I´ve 830 GB... I installed Win 7 RTM 64 Ultimate 2 hours ago, downloaded just the video drivers form nvidia web site and everything it´s running just fine.... Incredible.... I can´t believe it !!!!
Finally and after more than a year of CRASHING/FREEZING and severals OS (Vista 32 – 64 / Ultimate, Enterprise, VM running XP, Win 7 RC 32 – 64, now Win 7 64 RTM Ultimate) I’ve been able to solve the problem, thank WanderingLoner (and the rest of course).
Today I bought a 500GB samsung hard drive and also put the 320GB one as the second disk, so at least I´ve 830 GB…
I installed Win 7 RTM 64 Ultimate 2 hours ago, downloaded just the video drivers form nvidia web site and everything it´s running just fine….
Incredible….

]]> By: Jimself http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-22154 Jimself Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:44:02 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-22154 Hey Vasili, I've had several problems with my 8920g aswell as you can read from earlier posts. I can't help you with your sound problem but when I experienced the overheating problem I just opened the case and cleaned the fan and all the cooling related parts very thoroghly. It still gets quite hot, but at least it doesn't shut down anymore. Btw, my newest problem is with the power supply. It seems to have a bad circuit. On bad days it just doesn't load my battery, constantly draining power from it. Then the system just shuts down, without informing me about a low energy level. It seems to give the computer a signal that the power supply is connected but fails to tell it that it doesn't really supply the computer with electricity. Pretty stupid, eh? The result were several crashes with the last one being fatal for my OS (black screen of death). Had to recover my files with Linux and do a factory restoration. My problems with that piece of sh*** so far: - freezing problem, computer doesn't respond (resolved by exchanging HDD) - overheating occasionally (resolved by cleaning fan, etc.) - weird huming sounds from monitor/speakers - hanging "-" key (I'm 100% sure I didn't spill anything over it) - power supply deffective - sometimes at startup it just goes to the very first screen from which you can enter BIOS, and stops (several restarts required to resolve this) And propably there are others to come. I can say from the bottom of my heart that I trully and honestly hate that worthless piece of junk and that I still hate myself for not listening to my friends warnings about ACER computers. I'm disapointed and wonder what we could do to get some justice - $2300 thrown out of the window! It's obviously not us. Well, next time I'll get a real computer... Hey Vasili,
I’ve had several problems with my 8920g aswell as you can read from earlier posts. I can’t help you with your sound problem but when I experienced the overheating problem I just opened the case and cleaned the fan and all the cooling related parts very thoroghly. It still gets quite hot, but at least it doesn’t shut down anymore.

Btw, my newest problem is with the power supply. It seems to have a bad circuit. On bad days it just doesn’t load my battery, constantly draining power from it. Then the system just shuts down, without informing me about a low energy level. It seems to give the computer a signal that the power supply is connected but fails to tell it that it doesn’t really supply the computer with electricity. Pretty stupid, eh? The result were several crashes with the last one being fatal for my OS (black screen of death). Had to recover my files with Linux and do a factory restoration.

My problems with that piece of sh*** so far:
- freezing problem, computer doesn’t respond (resolved by exchanging HDD)
- overheating occasionally (resolved by cleaning fan, etc.)
- weird huming sounds from monitor/speakers
- hanging “-” key (I’m 100% sure I didn’t spill anything over it)
- power supply deffective
- sometimes at startup it just goes to the very first screen from which you can enter BIOS, and stops (several restarts required to resolve this)

And propably there are others to come. I can say from the bottom of my heart that I trully and honestly hate that worthless piece of junk and that I still hate myself for not listening to my friends warnings about ACER computers. I’m disapointed and wonder what we could do to get some justice – $2300 thrown out of the window! It’s obviously not us.

Well, next time I’ll get a real computer…

]]> By: Vasili http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-21569 Vasili Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:30:25 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-21569 Hi I have had the acer aspire 8920g since the first day it was released onto the market and these are the following problems I have encountered till now. from day one before I even got to install any software whatsoever I had the rundll32 error constantly pop up...on day 2 or so I had my video card experience fatal errors and reset my entire display! though that particular error was not so frequent, In the next couple of days after basking in my newfound love for sound through the 5.1 surround system on the laptop my joy came to an abrupt end when the sound somehow reset itself into what can only call a degradation of sound and lower volume with no way of at least bringing it back. then after a few months and several restore to factory settings attempts by myself Vista started locking me out of my own system saying that my copy was illegal!!! Well at that point it is safe to say I decided to get rid of Vista completely and install XP profesional instead. After doing so I have encountered neither of the above errors with the exception of the sound which appears to be even worse now....but I guess that has to do mostly with the fact that I have had to use a lower version driver as xp does not support the vista drivers. But now I have an even worse problem the laptop heats up so much when I attempt to play a game such as dead space or mass effect that it shuts down after about 10 - 15 mins of playing!!!! after that I must wait about 30 mins just to turn the laptop back on as the power button actually burns my finger if I attempt to turn it on sooner. If anyone has any Ideas on how to fix this problem please let me know. I am hoping it is a dust buildup in the fan but my gut feeling is rather pointing to the incompetent manufacturer... Hi I have had the acer aspire 8920g since the first day it was released onto the market and these are the following problems I have encountered till now. from day one before I even got to install any software whatsoever I had the rundll32 error constantly pop up…on day 2 or so I had my video card experience fatal errors and reset my entire display! though that particular error was not so frequent, In the next couple of days after basking in my newfound love for sound through the 5.1 surround system on the laptop my joy came to an abrupt end when the sound somehow reset itself into what can only call a degradation of sound and lower volume with no way of at least bringing it back.
then after a few months and several restore to factory settings attempts by myself Vista started locking me out of my own system saying that my copy was illegal!!! Well at that point it is safe to say I decided to get rid of Vista completely and install XP profesional instead. After doing so I have encountered neither of the above errors with the exception of the sound which appears to be even worse now….but I guess that has to do mostly with the fact that I have had to use a lower version driver as xp does not support the vista drivers. But now I have an even worse problem the laptop heats up so much when I attempt to play a game such as dead space or mass effect that it shuts down after about 10 – 15 mins of playing!!!! after that I must wait about 30 mins just to turn the laptop back on as the power button actually burns my finger if I attempt to turn it on sooner.
If anyone has any Ideas on how to fix this problem please let me know. I am hoping it is a dust buildup in the fan but my gut feeling is rather pointing to the incompetent manufacturer…

]]> By: curt http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-21499 curt Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:07:17 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-21499 i need to find rivers and video cards for my aspire but i dont know where to find any can some one help me out i need to find rivers and video cards for my aspire but i dont know where to find any can some one help me out

]]> By: Joan http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-21372 Joan Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:00:35 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-21372 I have Acer Aspire 7720G which came with Blueray, bought in Nov 2008 at PC World Have played demo disks sucessfully, but it will not take Blueray films, bought in UK. Tells me it does not play region B disks (UK region) I was confused, but went into it and changed the region on this laptop to UK.... B region. Still the same, will not play Has anyone had this problem ? Is there an answer ? I have Acer Aspire 7720G which came with Blueray, bought in Nov 2008 at PC World Have played demo disks sucessfully, but it will not take Blueray films, bought in UK. Tells me it does not play region B disks (UK region) I was confused, but went into it and changed the region on this laptop to UK…. B region. Still the same, will not play
Has anyone had this problem ? Is there an answer ?

]]> By: Marcelo Chulek http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-20953 Marcelo Chulek Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:38:20 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-20953 Here am I again Pals. I've installed XP and so far i've got no troubles with the damn freezing and hanging thing. I think that Windows 7 will not be able to solve this thing, once it is very similar to Vista. Best Wishes. Here am I again Pals. I’ve installed XP and so far i’ve got no troubles with the damn freezing and hanging thing. I think that Windows 7 will not be able to solve this thing, once it is very similar to Vista. Best Wishes.

]]> By: Marcelo http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-20850 Marcelo Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:34:46 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-20850 By the way, my notebook is a Acer Aspire 5920, WD's Hard Disk. I've already installed Vista 64 and Vista 32. Both have shown problems with hangs. So I decided to install Xp, once Windows 7 is very similar to Vista. By the way, my notebook is a Acer Aspire 5920, WD’s Hard Disk. I’ve already installed Vista 64 and Vista 32. Both have shown problems with hangs. So I decided to install Xp, once Windows 7 is very similar to Vista.

]]> By: Marcelo http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-20849 Marcelo Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:29:24 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-20849 The problem is with Vista. I have installed Xp and so far I haven't got Problems with hangs. The problem is with Vista. I have installed Xp and so far I haven’t got Problems with hangs.

]]> By: Andrew Hare http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series/comment-page-2#comment-20634 Andrew Hare Fri, 29 May 2009 15:21:02 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/up-close-with-the-aspire-gemstone-blue-or-acer-aspire-8920g-series#comment-20634 hey notty that happened with mine i took battery out and the power cable then held down power button for a few seconds, then replaced battery and switched on, mine worked after that............ hey notty that happened with mine i took battery out and the power cable then held down power button for a few seconds, then replaced battery and switched on, mine worked after that…………

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