Acer Aspire V5 571G WLAN issues

Jesh · June 2013

I am running an Acer Aspire V5 571G on Win 8.

I have had a number of issues with the WLAN on this notebook, with the common issue that I have seen with the wi-fi, however I am unable to locate a suitable driver. Looking at the Acer website for drivers it doesn't seem to include an V5 models in the list that I am able to see.

Additional to the wi-fi dropping out intermittently, this notebook also experiences times when the WLAN driver will stop working altogether. When this happens I cannot access the network systems icon in order to try to reconnect or disconnect (although I am already disconnected). I have attempted to restart the driver when this issue occurs, but it will attempt to restart and crash, telling me that the driver isn't working.

The only method I have found to work for restoring the network capabilities is to tether it to my iPhone through a USB hotspot (which doesn't always work) or restart the computer.

Even further additionally to this, most of the time when I attempt to restart my computer, the computer itself will crash and will restart saying that it had issues shutting down or it will freeze on the restart screen and I have to manually restart it using the power button.

Any advice, support or solutions would be greatly appreciated.