DosWasBest Enthusiast

I don't understand something about this post for the g3-572. The g3-572 has a sata connector for standard spinning 2.5" hard drives (in the accessible bay). It also has pcie nvme for the factory installed intel 600 drive. The op said he had an operating m2 sata ssd......where the heck would one of those connect? I haven't…

Thanks. Looks like my best bet is to leave bios on secure boot in the uefi area... basically not change the bios at all.... then.... use Rufus to make a bootable flash that uefi can see, formatted for gpt.... place the win10 image on the flash drive... and proceed.

Yes, although Usb C ports are spec'd to provide up to 100 watts power..... as a spec.. if the manufacturer chooses to activate that. But guess what Acer decided to activate on the usb-c port on the Helios 300 predator laptop? 2.5 watts. I'm just wanting to be clear on how much power the 500 really makes available at the…

The spec isn't shown anywhere in helios 500 info that I've looked at so far. While here in circa 2018-2019, there are no tb3 devices on planet earth that draw 100watts from a tb3 bus, there are a number of devices (sound interfaces mostly) appearing next year that want to see 20-35 watts if bus-powered from tb3. I plan on…

I have the G3-572. With windows 10, right click anywhere on a blank area of the desktop, select Nvidia Control Panel. In the middle area of the upper middle panel, you see "global settings" and just below, "preferred graphics processor". It's set to "auto-select" but you can manually switch it to the Intel embedded…

If you want to do a clean install, there is a link online for a direct download of 1703. Once installed, also be sure to install any/all Acer drivers that win10 1703 doesn't catch. You could even do the clean install on one single partition if you want to (like I do with Macrium). Then image the completed 1703 setup in…

That link to the ssd Intel fix is not for the 1803 issue with Intel 600 series drives like the op has (he has the same drive as me, the ssdpekkw256g7 . That Intel fix link is from March. The new problem is from the past two weeks...1803 based... and there is no fix yet. A revert back to 1709 is what I did to cure my issue…

Which version of WIndows 10 Home do you have? Is it 1803? Or 1709?

I don't think that's true. My portable ac power to my Predator is metered and shows working at around 50% when I connect the Predator in a situation where the battery is not fully charged. Once the battery fully charges, my portable ac drops down to about 25%. I take this to mean that the computer now takes the battery out…

If your C drive is an intel ssdpekkw256g7 in your Predator laptop, 1803 will indeed act like its downloading but will stop at some point... and will not install even if it does complete download. Why? Because of the now-well-known issue over the past week where 1803 is incompatible with Intel 600 series drives... which…

I had the same problems so, just to know you and I are in the same situation, verify these things in this order- When you say crash, does the initial thing that happens is that everything freezes? Followed a short time later by the ms blue screen message of Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart"...? Plug your…

The only freezes/crashing I had on my 572 (which has the ssdpekkw256g7 ssd) during the short time I had 1803 was whenever I was on battery power. When on ac power, 1803 worked fine all day long with no observable freezes. As I do a lot of work when on battery-only, I reverted to 1709 last week once I found out the Intel…

Thanks for the info. I have noticed posts with program hang problems etc where a re-download of drivers may have been helpful, but I'm pretty well convinced my problem is the incompatibility of my intel ssdpekkw256g7 600series C drive with 1803. At least MS is now blocking 1803 from downloading onto my g3-572 for what…

Is your C drive an intel ssdpekkw256g7. If so, that's why the block. And the block isn't from Acer. It's from Ms and Intel. Ms is blocking 1803 until Intel fixes the 600 series drive incompatibilities that are causing 1803 to freeze/crash. The block just began a couple of days ago. I was able to get 1803 for a few days…

Also keep in mind that if your C drive is an intel ssdKpekkw256G7 (which is in my g3-572), it will crash with 1803 in all sorts of different manners. That info just came out in the past hours.

After reverting to 1709 on my g3-572 win10 Home system a couple of times over the past week, of course Windows update wanted to reinstall 1803 at various times. Ugh, constant revert. Dunno why Acer uses Win10 Home instead of Pro. Although even Pro has limitations on delaying updates. Anyway, after reading the above ssd…

That's interesting as on several of my reboots after freezes on 1803, messages came up during boot "no boot media" or something. Which at the time, was unnerving. Further rebooting got around that message. Some of the event viewer messages before 1803 freezes mentioned losing contact with something or other... and…

I finally decided to stop trying to nail the problem down. I hit the revert to 1709 button last night and ever since, the laptop is just fine on ac and/or battery. I'll try 1803 again maybe in a month or so.