Acer computers = bad?

ixfd64 · 09-07-2011, 11:16 AM

I've personally experienced a bunch of problems with Acer machines:

1. My mother's Acer laptop appears to have a defective battery that lasts a couple of minutes on a full charge. The laptop itself seems to crashes a lot.

2. One of my co-workers had two Acer Veriton X desktops that died on him. The second one worked after he did a factory restore, but it now has a hard drive problem. CrystalDiskInfo shows three reallocated sectors and rates the drive as "bad."

3. Another Acer Veriton X kept sending incorrect results to the GIMPS distributed computing project. Strangely enough, IntelBurnTest and Prime95's own torture test showed no errors.

4. Two other colleagues were having problems with yet another Acer Veriton X desktop, which would only show a blank green screen and refuse to boot.

Do Acer computers really suck that bad? Has anyone else ever had issues with them?

Waiter · 09-07-2011, 12:01 PM

I have an Acer Aspire 4810TG laptop that has been my friend for about a year and a half. Never had a problem that was related to Acer or any other hardware.

Inanimate Carbon Rod · 09-07-2011, 01:00 PM

1. Laptop batteries go bad overtime.
2. If a factory restore fixed his problem, then it was a user error until his hd crashed.
3. dunno.
4. genuine problem.

Rapture_Rising · 09-08-2011, 05:10 PM

Im not a real computer expert but i have never had any trouble with Acer although my old Acer laptop had the same issue with the battery losing charge in about half an hour but that was an issue with the battery itself and not the hardware and my last Acer desktop the PSU died, considering that the easiest option was just to replace the computer altogether.

There might just be an issues with Veriton X line of products.

MAT · 09-08-2011, 11:10 PM

I have an Acer Aspire 6930g laptop for over 2 years now and had never a problem with it.

Morbid · 09-09-2011, 05:18 AM

I had one 6-7 years ago. Monitor died shortly after the warranty period of 2 years and they had no service parts for it. Not that laptops from other companies are better though. A cousin of mine used to buy only Dell ones. Every one of them had some hardware failure (USB ports, hard disk failures etc).

8IronBob · 09-10-2011, 05:38 PM

Well, we have two Acer laptops, the missus has a netbook (a small 8.9" with 160GB HDD, Intel Atom, and 1 GB RAM), and I have a 15.6" laptop with an Intel i5 460M, an nVidia 420M, 4GB DDR3, and a 120GB X25-M in place of the 500GB HDD, and Win 7 Pro x64 clean installed, and we have not had any problems with any of ours yet. Although I hardly use the Acer as much as my desktop, but at least it's there should I need to take my computing on the road and need to transfer anything from my desktop to a portable format.

09-07-2011, 11:16 AM	#1
ixfd64	Acer computers = bad? I've personally experienced a bunch of problems with Acer machines: 1. My mother's Acer laptop appears to have a defective battery that lasts a couple of minutes on a full charge. The laptop itself seems to crashes a lot. 2. One of my co-workers had two Acer Veriton X desktops that died on him. The second one worked after he did a factory restore, but it now has a hard drive problem. CrystalDiskInfo shows three reallocated sectors and rates the drive as "bad." 3. Another Acer Veriton X kept sending incorrect results to the GIMPS distributed computing project. Strangely enough, IntelBurnTest and Prime95's own torture test showed no errors. 4. Two other colleagues were having problems with yet another Acer Veriton X desktop, which would only show a blank green screen and refuse to boot. Do Acer computers really suck that bad? Has anyone else ever had issues with them? __________________ fires Devastator at next poster Visit my forums!

09-07-2011, 12:01 PM	#2
Waiter	Re: Acer computers = bad? I have an Acer Aspire 4810TG laptop that has been my friend for about a year and a half. Never had a problem that was related to Acer or any other hardware. __________________ "As you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say." - George W. Bush "Adding "PERIOD" behind a sentence doesn't make you right. BASTA!" - Klaus Kinski "There are some things that just aren't meant to be eaten." - Homer Simpson

09-07-2011, 01:00 PM	#3
Inanimate Carbon Rod	Re: Acer computers = bad? 1. Laptop batteries go bad overtime. 2. If a factory restore fixed his problem, then it was a user error until his hd crashed. 3. dunno. 4. genuine problem. __________________ "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

09-08-2011, 05:10 PM	#4
Rapture_Rising	Re: Acer computers = bad? Im not a real computer expert but i have never had any trouble with Acer although my old Acer laptop had the same issue with the battery losing charge in about half an hour but that was an issue with the battery itself and not the hardware and my last Acer desktop the PSU died, considering that the easiest option was just to replace the computer altogether. There might just be an issues with Veriton X line of products. __________________ Here we go folks... The rarest creature in nature... The Duketard. I will now approach him very quitely and... Jam my thumb in his butt hole. That should REALLY piss him off!.

09-08-2011, 11:10 PM	#5
MAT	Re: Acer computers = bad? I have an Acer Aspire 6930g laptop for over 2 years now and had never a problem with it. __________________ What doesn't kill you can kill you later. How do you take someone seriously when their sig is the machine stats? -Tea Monster

09-09-2011, 05:18 AM	#6
Morbid	Re: Acer computers = bad? I had one 6-7 years ago. Monitor died shortly after the warranty period of 2 years and they had no service parts for it. Not that laptops from other companies are better though. A cousin of mine used to buy only Dell ones. Every one of them had some hardware failure (USB ports, hard disk failures etc).

09-10-2011, 05:38 PM	#7
8IronBob	Re: Acer computers = bad? Well, we have two Acer laptops, the missus has a netbook (a small 8.9" with 160GB HDD, Intel Atom, and 1 GB RAM), and I have a 15.6" laptop with an Intel i5 460M, an nVidia 420M, 4GB DDR3, and a 120GB X25-M in place of the 500GB HDD, and Win 7 Pro x64 clean installed, and we have not had any problems with any of ours yet. Although I hardly use the Acer as much as my desktop, but at least it's there should I need to take my computing on the road and need to transfer anything from my desktop to a portable format. __________________ PC Specs (a.k.a. "Galacticus Prime"): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7Vk7FT