brendancox464

Thanks for your reply! Really informative post, still deciding whether I'm going to go all out and completely disassemble this laptop (following a youtube video) and try from there. Do you have any experience in cracking open laptops? Thanks again, really appreciate your time taken

- Yes it has fans but they are not working - Sorry but I couldn't tell you! My 4 other HP laptops are going fine without any issues. Sadly this Acer has been plagued with issues

BIOS screen does not show, it is a post failure. I was never able to reinstall Windows on it, the drive files are just wiped and ready for the fresh OS. Thanks for the tip of having the Ubuntu on a flash drive, I do have one but did not bother trying to boot from it as I had no need. Only wanted to have a quick look to see if the drive was visible

Hello all! I do not usually post on the forums, so please be kind! I am having a terrible time with this acer laptop I have, had problems since the day i purchased it and wish I have just bought another HP (they last me forever). Onto the story: 1. Laptop HDD was corrupted and would not boot into Windows. But I could get into the BIOS and boot from USB. 2. Booted from USB into the Windows 10 installer to check to see if the drive was still visible and that it could reinstall windows 3. Drive was visible and it was able to reinstall windows but I did not because I had some files to get off the HDD 4. Two days later I took the HDD out of the computer and put it into an enclosure to see if there was any valuable files (there wasn't) 5. Inserted the HDD back into the computer 6. Tried to boot the Laptop but no success. It just has the blue power LED for 5 seconds and then turns off. No HDD status lights, zero fan noise, no HDD spinning and no LCD turning on. 7. Tried doing power residual, testing RAM, boot without HDD, disconnect WiFi card, disconnect battery and run off mains. Nothing works I am convinced that it is not a faulty motherboard since all I did was power it down normally, disconnect battery, drain residue power and then remove HDD. Researching online people have said that there can be a loose ribbon/sensor/keyboard loose or something but I have never fully disassembled a laptop (since I have never had problems as serious as this). I am really stuck in this situation! I have tried everything I can think of! Specs: * Acer Aspire V3-571G * Intel Core i5 3210m * GeForce 710m * 1TB HDD Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for taking the time to read this long story! - Brendan

Worth noting though that nvidia sometimes release bad drivers until fixed (directX errors) so I always make sure I run a clean installation. Other than that, nvidia drivers are great! I see a large frame rate jump when drivers are officially optimised for games

Are all the monitors connected via HDMI?

That's not a bad Overclock at all!

My PC looks like it only supports 24gb msata drive anyway so installing OS wouldn't be possible

I must have been mistaken then - sorry! This is my first post here

Is there a way I could add more dedicated video memory to the gpu? Or does the gpu automatically take more ram for intensive games?

My bad my phone won't show me the first page of the post

Your defo going to need a good cooler then! Not Intel stock

i5 definitely! Headroom for overclocking and you'll benefit layer with games drawing more from the CPU and if you do the occasional video editing [emoji14]

Even if I don't have the battery connected? I only insert the battery when I'm travelling but other than that I use the laptop as a desktop setup (close laptop lid and use two monitors)

And I have the laptop running on AC only (no battery connected) so no battery heat build up