acer grief

Well it appears that I am not the only one so peeved at Acer theyre head spins.
I got my travelmate 1yr and 8 mos ago and always treated it like gold...my second laptop...was my baby.
However there was always an overheating issue with it that acer simply told me that I needed to make sure there was proper ventilation....ok so I put the laptop up on a rack that was wire and was 6 inches up high.
This made typing a challenge but to keep it from getting hot I sufficed convienence over a overheated machine....which consequently still got oven hot....could have baked cookies under that rack below the laptop.
Another call to acer and now I get this "all laptops get hot if left on too long"....um excuse me but a half an hour is too long?
I think not!
I had gotten this laptop through this technical school that included these oh so wonderful acers as part of sighning up.
So I had some ammo.
I called the other students and found that with three people, they had the same issues as I did.
I cannot stress enough how much I think that Acers suck!
One person sold his acer laptop because of its issues of getting too hot and shutting down. The other has sent his in for repairs to the mb because it simply got too hot. The other still has hers but she hardly ever uses it because....you guess it...it gets hot.
I am now looking at a very dead laptop that is just barely 8 months out of warranty and no relief in sight.
I cannot afford to get another and my credit...like acer....sucks so getting one on credit is way out of the question.
I'm smelling a class action lawsuit my friends...if I can muster enough people, I think that its dooable.
email me if you have these issues on your acer laptop at [email protected]

 

Is the unit completely dead or does it just overheat? If it's a matter of overheating, it could be related to the heatsink not making full contact with the CPU. This would cause the CPU to overheat. The system should be hanging/freezing while you were using it, this would be the sign that the CPU is overheating. If this is the case, just crack open the unit and add some thermal paste between the CPU & heatsink. This will guarantee contact and should keep the CPU cooler.

BTW, what's the exact model of this notebook? Maybe someone here may know exactly what's causing the problem.

-Vb-

 

nope the thing is completely dead.
The only thing you can hear is the fan motor
when you power it up, the fan motor comes on and the hd light flickers once and then theres nothing but fan...no display...nothing.
the cd does eject and that does spin, but I have put this on diagnostics at work and had an acer certified tech look at it and the only thing that we can think that it is , is the mother board.
know where I can get a asus for this?
Its a 230 travelmate

carlene blair

 

Try connecting it to an external monitor. The LCD could be dead and could be sitting at an error message. Try swapping your memory and this could be defective.

If it's the motherboard, the only one that will fit is an Acer. No you can't use an Asus board in this unit as the design won't fit the units casing.

See if you can get one of these systemboards/notebooks from eBay. I'm sure you'll be able to find something to get your unit back up and running.

-Vb-