ACER Aspire 4520 Notebook AMD Turion 64 problem

[Semangka]

4 years ago i have a friend that bought this laptop. It was working fine for 6 months, since he asking me why the ODD is not working anymore. And i start investigating.

At first i replaced his ODD's ribbon cable, and problems solved. Then for a several months, likely 3 months later he came again to me with the same problem like before. I wonder why the cable connector was broken so easily and i trying to solve the really problem is.

Did some test, and it was so frustrating, the laptop has so bad internal design. The heatsink system is not working when you are working under windows. And it caused the CPU temperature is so high when installing windows.

Boot from external media such as USB CD-ROM sometimes failed too. Installing windows is pain in the a**! I have to open the bottom lid and put a fan to cooling the CPU to make this work.

Acer has denied for excuse (for bad design) if you complaining this laptop, (maybe in my area only). They only suggest to change for internal spare parts (If you have warranties). And they rejects for laptop upgrading to another brand type.

I was disappoint for their service. Why they are selling the failed products like this? Maybe in the future there is another type of laptop have bad design like this? Who knows?

Now, many people came to me complaining about this laptop, many case. ODD not working, CPU dead, mainboard failure, Memory errors, even HDD bad sectors.

From this experience, i suggest you guys to not choose Acer Aspire 4520 as your laptop. Seriously.

[GrofLuigi]

Yeah, bad design happens sometimes.

Also, Turion = furnace.

And if you ever get to Windows, this might help (a little).

GL

[bonestonne]

Might I suggest a laptop cooler?

My Powerbook G4's base is pretty much it's heatsink for everything, and gets very hot. Simple $25 laptop cooler solved that problem easily.

[puntoMX]

4 years for a notebook is a good age, hell, most will not make the 2 years. And if you are really talking about a bad design, take the V3000 from HP/Compaq with nVidia 6100/410 / 6150/430 chipsets and you have a winner; trash in less than 6 months.

The ACER Acer Aspire 4520 has a nVidia chipset as well... now, what did we learn today?

[Semangka]

4 years for a notebook is a good age, hell, most will not make the 2 years. And if you are really talking about a bad design, take the V3000 from HP/Compaq with nVidia 6100/410 / 6150/430 chipsets and you have a winner; trash in less than 6 months.

The ACER Acer Aspire 4520 has a nVidia chipset as well... now, what did we learn today?

Well, it was troubled after 6 months of usage, after that, troubles keep coming

And i'm talking about the same notebooks with same problem (Aspire 4520) coming to me. Actually i am working in computer store.

Presario V3000 is almost same as Aspire 4520. it is sucks too.