Predator Helios 300 power button issue

Hyyy6

I've got my new Predator helios 300 and it has been working really greatly for now, no issues like some angry customers had.

 

The only thing is that my power button doesn't seem to work while laptop is running, it just ingores this button being pressed. I mean, it perfectly turns on after I press power button, but it doesn't wanna neither turn off, nor go to sleep/hybernate after the laptop has turned on. I've tried changing what it shall do on pressing this button in power plan options, it took no effect.

It might be that as this button is located on the keyboard near other buttons its intentionaly turned off so people dont accidently press it, but still wondering. And I can still press this button for a few seconds to force a shutdown.

 

PS

I've performed a clean installation and couldn't install Acer's predator sense app because there were some issues with the website. Does this app provide smth apart from setting up fan speed on my own? And one more thing, USB port are so tight, has anyone experienced that?

 

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Flx

It seems when the laptop is already powered on you have to hold the power button down for 2-3 seconds for anything to happen. I have mine set to sleep and if I just press it once it won't go to sleep, if I hold the button down though it will go into sleep mode. This is designed this way to prevent accidental usage most likely.

 

I don't believe PredatorSense provides any extra functionality aside from the CoolBoost feature, of which there isn't much documentation or information on what it does specifically. You'll probably be okay with another program but maybe the website was just being funky I'd try downloading it again.

 

Yes the USB ports are pretty tight but I don't see any downsides to this. It was surprising at first but you get used to it after awhile.