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[supersoul]

I did not intend to hijack this thread, but since we all seem to have driver/firmware problems, I hope the OP will be understanding.

My W510 is current with all recommended driver/firmware updates, but my keyboard still has the two major issues with the keyboard and trackpad.  Specifically, repeating letters and a squirrely track pad.

Once again, if none of Acer's patches have fixed this (and they haven't in my case), I would like to hear from anyone who sent their unit back to Acer and can confirm that they actually replaced the keyboard docking unit with a new one.  I believe mine is just bad.

[didopido]

I got a refurbished unit and so far haven't noticed any issues with the track pad or the keyboard. The keyboard dock has a weird bowing in the middle, like it was open and incorrectly put back together, so I don't know if some hardware changes were made. Also noticing that the keyboard dock battery lasts a lot less than the tablet, is this common?

I did some tests with Win8 and the WiFi driver from the OP and it looks like the connected sleep works fine at home, anytime I call my skype (from another account) it will ring even if the tablet is closed and sleeping.

I'm curious if this fix will work with Win8.1, but for now is good with Win8 and really makes a difference - this is what this tablet should have been from the beginning without all the "hacking" necessary.

Thank you, Tony-home for getting this tablet back to normal (at least for me).

[padgett]

To be fair it seems that Acer produces few drivers and relies on their vendors (Intel, Broadcamm, Qualcom, etc) for most.

Further when two from different vendors start beating on each other (like WiFi and Graphics) their only answer seems to be "reload everything".

It really makes me wonder if Acer is acting as an assembler only & not doing much integration. No/little testing is done at all (that is the purpose of the forum...)

[Tony-home]

Acer is the OEM and integrator. I would expect them to do integration testing and publish drivers on Acer web site only if all tests look good. This is essentially what Apple is doing - they don't just accept drivers from Broadcom or some other vendor, they take full responsibility for the overall quality and do all the testing.

If Acer does not have resources to do the ongoing testing, it may be better not to publish drivers on the Acer web site, and especially don't do LiveUpdater.

[tri0xinn]

The driver fix didn't work for me either.. I'm on win 8.1 . **bleep**!  Will have to back up and restore back to win8.  Is hibernate an option on these or am I missing somthing? If in power options I could hibernate when screen closes or power buton pressed that might tide me over for a bit.. but it's not an option in the drop down. Right now I have it shut down when I close the lid or hit th power which obviously helps but of course is inconvenient at best.

[Tony-home]

To: tri0xinn

So you have to come up with your own fix for Win8.1 :-)

I'm running 8.1 on a different machine, but waiting for the final 8.1 before I put it on the Acer tablet - I had some problems when I tried it before, and frankly speaking I don't see anything super-appealing in the preview to make me try to squeeze it in right now.

Hibernate option could be enabled on Win8 on this tablet, there are instructions on the web. You need to enable the button via explorer policy (in the registry), and then need to enable it in the registry to show up in the power manager. I didnot do it because hibernation of 2gig RAM takes several seconds (way longer than sleep/resume), also it will eat the life of the SSD drive quickly - the number of cycles you can write to NAND is limited.

[billsey]

Control Panel; Power Options; System Settings. Click on the Hibernate checkboox under Shutdown settings and hibernate will be shown. You might have to 'change settings that are currently unavailable' first.