Hello, I bought my acer laptop a few months ago. It has had problems from the outset.
1)
Fan issues, the fan seems to go on very loud
sometimes even randomly for prolonged periods.
2)
Some websites seem to cause the fan issue more
than others, for example news websites with a lot of pop up videos etc
3)
A clicking/popping noise occurs when loading a
website particulary ones with pop ups.
Or even when a youtube video is played, at the start, the popping sound
occurs.
I read somewhere online that adjusting the maximum processor
state to less than 100 per cent (to around 65 per cent) could resolve the
issues. This worked quite well (not 100
per cent of the time) for the fan issues but not for the clicking.
The main reason I bought the Acer was for music production
with my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
The DAW has third party plugins and with one of the plugins the new
power setting of 65 per cent seems to not let it work very well at all. There is a lot of clicking, popping and
freezing in the DAW and the CPU graph in the DAW goes through the roof. Putting the maximum processor state back to
100 per cent allows the plugin to work better but then I have the previous
issues I had before, fan etc and when I am using the DAW at this setting the
fan kicks in especially if I have chrome open.
I understand there is an update for BIOS fan issues but I
read of someone’s fan issue being worse after the update. Some people suggested and tried downgrading
the BIOS instead and this seemed to work.
All I know is that the CPU is through the roof at times and
I can’t carry on working with these issues, it’s making it extremely difficult
and frustrating. It’s nothing to do with
the specs of the ACER as my old laptop which is a massive step down from the
ACER never had any of these issues with my DAW.
Should I upgrade or downgrade the BIOS? If so, can someone point me towards how I can
do this? Or maybe there is something else I can do?
I would really appreciate some advice and guidance on where
to go from here please. I’m at my wits
end.
Thanks a lot
