NVMe support on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42-R5ED not present? Why, since it is for the Intel models?

Hello to all,

So I have been traveling for work and not on for a minute. I have been able to install a Samsung 860 Evo SATA m.2 SSD. It took me about 5 times of re-seating the drive for it to appear in bios to get it to work. It has been working fine for the time being with no issues to report. However for this being a new laptop and not support NVME M.2 Drives is unacceptable from Acer. Soon you won't be able to buy any Drives that are only SATA SSD, They are all transitioning to NVME standard. It all comes down to the Bios needing to be able to release that functionality, but Acer has seen fit to only put forth no effort or forethought into the upgrade ability and tweaking that you can due with an AMD Ryzen chipset as these systems can be overclocked and fined tuned for much better performance if they would give us a bios with more control on this "gaming" laptop.

Every time that I see these old Insyde bios on laptops it makes me think that the system is from the early 2000's when we first started seeing it. I mean nothing has changed with the Insyde Bios Software since that era. look at other "gaming"laptops and you see multiple ways to configure and tweek your bios settings for performance and Stability. to be honest if I had known that this "gaming" Laptop was this crude and bios locked then I would have not bought it. So how I look at this situation is that Acer did not take the time or effort in the design and testing of this chipset and system and as such the end users have to suffer through a computer that could have been better than what Acer delivered.

On another note I have found that traveling with this laptop can be a pain with the Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A Wireless Network Adapter not always connecting or even downright refusing to connect to some WiFi places in hotels, airports and other public WiFi. It is frustrating and from what I have found through some research is that it has to do with the drivers for it from Qaulcomm and Microsoft being really buggy, so I am going to be putting in an Intel WiFi adapter to replace it as the Qualcomm adapter is to unreliable. 

egydiocoelho,

You are correct about the BIOS interface and UEFI, however the problem still stands that Acer could have put forth more effort in user control of the system on this level, as this is a "gaming" laptop. If you look at the Intel models BIOS control you can see that they have more flexibility and options that are not locked out. Acer just did not want to spend more time and effort on the development of the AMD Ryzen R&D as noted by many users that have purchased this model. I have an old Acer aspire intel from 14 years ago that has more  BIOS capability than this laptop does, just to  put things into perspective.

As for the Qualcomm adapter the issue is with the new and old drivers from both Qualcomm and Microsoft's drivers on Windows 10. The failure to connect and dropped connection issues are just unfortunately all to do with Windows 10 being a buggy, and unstable OS. This laptop doesn't let you install Linux on it because you can't change settings you need in the BIOS as well. Again no flexibility and forward thinking from Acer on this as well. 

Yes it does, it also happened in both the 1803 and 1809, though not as frequently. I travel a lot for work so I connect to a variety and plethora of networks and have found that there is no pattern to it and resetting the computer or just the network adapter does no good. It is a very troublesome problem and I am not the only one who has noticed it with this adapter, it is  seen on different devices with this same Qualcomm adapter installed in them ranging from Lenovo to the Surface Pro's. 

No sir, it happened on both bands and even trying to adjust all the settings did not help. On some networks attempting to connect would completely glitch the adapter out and cause it to reset or even completely crash the driver. It is very strange behavior to say the least. 

Now, on most networks it worked flawlessly and I had no issue at all with it connecting. The problem is that it is unpredictable and unreliable in preportion to the travel that I do. I need a component that will be more stable. 

Version 1903, and yes I know it is buggy, but it happened to me on the 1809 version as well. Also it did not matter if I used the Acer Qualcomm driver, old or new ones, or if I used the Microsoft versions of the drivers.

Keep note that from researching the issue I found that across the board on multiple devices from different manufacturers this problem is being observed on this Qualcomm Athros network card.