Comments on: Acer Aspire Idea Home PC

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:23:59 +0000

Hi there
I had huge problems getting the sleep function to work with my Idea 510. No matter what I tried in the Vista Powersaving settings it just wouldnt work.
But using the MCE Standby Tool in installation mode solved all problems. Try it if you have problems http://www.xs4all.nl/~hveijk/mst/indexe.htm

By: James

James — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:26:02 +0000

If anyone knows of (or wants to set up) a proper forum for the Idea 510, it would be great to know where it is… AVforums has one for the Idea 500, but it has filled up with complaints about the power problems on that and no one seems interested in the 510.

Anyway, any 510 owners out there who have found out how to personalise/control the front panel display, I would love to know – I want to be able to play my music, or at least choose playlists, without having to turn on the telly.

Cheers,
James

By: Wayne Alston

Wayne Alston — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:33:52 +0000

has anyone succesfully got Acer to resolve issues with connections to Pioneer Plasmas using HDMI where it freezes/refuses to boot when the cable is plugged in?

Thanks

By: Oscar

Oscar — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:26:16 +0000

Idea 510 Sleep functionality:
I found that, before you press the power ‘off’ on the remote, you need to stop live TV (just press the square dot) in order to let the PC go to sleep using the Power Options settings. As long as one of the tuners is active, Vista can’t destinguish between a recording or just live TV; it is simply detected as activity.
This is why users have the feeling that this function responds randomly. Whenever Live TV is selected once, the tuner keeps running video as a background process. Sometimes Live TV is not selected at all, resulting in normal sleep functionality.

HDMI:
Can’t get it to work on my Sony; picture is always too small. Using ’smart’ as auto sizing option, the TV pulls the video to fill the screen, but this is not he proper way of course. Let you know when I found a way to get it to work.

By: Josephina

Josephina — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:36:39 +0000

A few days ago, my family and I decided to take from Louisiana to Georgia. We took my Acer Aspire 1640 because I wanted to continuously check my bank account, so it rode in the main part of the car. When we returned home, I instantly got onto my laptop because there were some files I wanted to check and didn’t depend on Wi-Fi to keep it to it’s self. Well, thirty minutes into usage, thin whit lines started to take over the screen then flash back to the original screen. after doing this once or twice the screen would turn completely white then freeze. What do you think is wrong?

By: Gerard Koning

Gerard Koning — Sun, 20 May 2007 09:57:38 +0000

Dan/Ashley,

I’m only using the HDMI connection to connect the media center to my LCD TV (Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000) and the TV menus allow me to adjust the display area properly. When I select “Full Pixel” it perfectly displays my desk top resolution (1920×1080) or any wide screen video, without black borders or parts being cut-off.

Gerard

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:56:07 +0000

Dan,

I have a similar issue when using DVI, when I turn the PC on 2 out of 3 times it does not boot, no video output and hd just whirs. Othertimes it is fine (sending it back to Acer for this problem).

HDMI: If you are expecting it to use the whole screen it won’t, as most LCD Tvs are 16:10 not 16:9 so you will get black borders whilst viewing TV. my suggestions would be to use the DVI if possible.

Thanks
Ashley

By: Dan Hole

Dan Hole — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:42:49 +0000

I can only get the Media center to boot when i have a monitor dsub cable in, when i only have the hdmi cable in and the system restarts it just freezes before it gets to windows.

also when i am using the hdmi cable and i turn the tv display off then on it looses the output, and looking at the display properties (using vnc from anouther pc) shows that it is no longer outputting to the digital tv.
the final problem i have is that i cant get the screen to fit correctly on my lcd TV i am using HDMI to a 26″ JVC tv, i have tried all the reolutions avalibe and also the auto setup for 480 720 and 1080 but it still goes off the screen

has ayone come accress these issues or can help me then please let me know.

Thanks

Dam

By: Larry Baker

Larry Baker — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:35:47 +0000

I bought my Daughter a ACER ASPIR 3690 for school she was unable to conect to internet by wireless server. She was home this weekend and I tried set up ips shows it is connected but when you click on internet search can not find connection. Tried everything I can think of ACER web help terrible no response tried to call no response web run very slow, does anyone have any idea. Please e-mail.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:21:49 +0000

Ashley,

the explanation and the script (called “recycle_mce.cmd”) can be found here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/peterrosser/archive/2006/02/15/DvbGuideProblem.aspx

But you may have to do some fine tuning:

If you have problems with the restart of the MCE shell replace this line:
start “%SystemRoot%\ehome\ehshell.exe”
with:
cd C:\Windows\eHome (or whatever path)
start ehshell
For some unknown reason the first method doesn’t work…

If you want to put the machine immediately into hibernation mode, add the command “nircmdc cmdwait 10000 hibernate” at the very end of the script to wait 10 seconds and change the mode.

This should give the services enough time to start.

The very versatile freeware tool can be found here:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

bye
Marcus