JackE Trailblazer

Cyph360 Does the backlight momentarily light up when first turned on?

This is normal if GPU temp is going above ~86°C, CPU ~90°C.

You can usually speed BIOS reset by shorting the CMOS coin cell +/- terminals on the mainboard for about 10 seconds. Make sure battery is disconnected along with the coin cell removed when doing this.

> >I CANT CHANGE TO OTHER COLOURS > > > >sometimes it changes> > When does it change sometimes — or when did it change sometimes? Now? A month ago? Two months ago? The day you turned the machine on for the first time? In other words, did it ever really change or you don't remember?

Desculpe. Se você tentou reconectar o cabo à tela ou aos soquetes da placa-mãe com a bateria ainda conectada, a GPU agora pode estar danificada. Sorry. If you tried to reconnect the cable to the screen or mainboard sockets with the battery still connected, the gpu now be damaged.

Shubh1998 This symptom suggests your battery may be at the end of its life if it was never replaced.

> >my laptop worked with Win11 too, with no any problems with Acer official drivers, including the touchpad.> > > >It's custom win11 pro x64 with all bloatware removed. Updates, defender, etc. are all working and the laptop works great 4th month already with no any problems, much better and speedy than win8 or win10. As…

> > I tried both elantech and synaptics drivers. Still the same > > No. This is the point. These are probably generic Elantech or Synaptic drivers for Win11 or recent Win10 versions. You see, it's highly unlikely that they are proprietary Acer versions of these drivers in current Windows installers specifically written for…

It's still possible though slower to navigate an installation without a mouse or touchpad by using certain keyboard keys. For example, tapping the tab key moves the cursor around the installation screen to select or highlight an option. The enter key will then execute the tab selected option. And, as Billsey implied,…

Then you must decide if the risk of flashing is worth it. If it was mine, I'd try a few other Windows driver tools or Win11 drivers rather than take the risk of bricking an otherwise perfectly functioning system. I don't use touchpads anyway. But it's not mine. So you have to make your own decision. .

16JSundberg4 What official website for the Win11 version are you referring to?

You can try to press Ctrl+S to reveal any hidden options in any BIOS tab. It should be in the Main tab if it's hidden.

If you want to risk bricking the mainboard to try to get the touchpad initialized, change the .bin extension to .fd. Copy to an empty USB stick with an activity LED indicator. Then with the laptop turned off and plugged in with a fully charged battery, insert the usb stick. Then press and hold both the FN and ESC keys.…

Please state full name of BIN extension file that you received.

Post screenshot of Device Manager as it opens. Don't manually expand any folders in the screenshot.

Leave BIOS alone for now. Instead, install & run DriverBooster or similar driver tool freeware to see if it can detect the touchpad and pick up a driver on line.

There is currently no UNallocated free space for the Linux partition on your boot drive C. All the free space is now allocated to the Windows. So you must shrink (eg UNalllocate), the free space in the Windows C partition. Select the C partition and perform the shrink procedure under the Action menuitem. Shrink the Windows…

Please post a phone photo or screenshot of Windows Disk Management app.

Sure. Use Windows Disk Management app to shrink the Windows partition on the existing boot drive. This creates an unallocated space on the drive for the Ubuntu partition.

> >HDD0 slot shows - **None**> > This means the BIOS hardware only detects one bootable drive. And it has no free space available to install ubuntu.