thurgood Enthusiast

Not sure I understand the English here, but the short answer is YES. I have upgraded many Acer 5742s to SSD drives. I would update to the 1.30 BIOS before making the upgrade. Although I do not know the particulars of this BIOS version, it is the latest, and many BIOS upgrades are issued just to enable a computer to accept…

I will defer to the sages here and leave the BIOS as is. thx

My bootdisk, only hard drive in the machine, is a GPT SSD drive... Make a difference?

Are you saying this on General Principles... as in, if it ain't broke don't fix it? Or, is there something wrong with the 2.11 BIOS

Muito obrigado pela vossa rápida resposta... My laptop originally came with windows 7... I can see by the sticker. So, the v2.11 BIOS is good for me?

actually, at the moment, it's settled down to run in the mid 40s

oops, wrong forum I think

Thanks for the reply. The 551 (AT0JU0010R0) Heatsink and the 551G Heatsink (AT0HI007DA0) are different. My question was about using the smaller one 551 on the 551G mobo and possible "side effects". Same goes for the 5750 and 5750G... as well as the 5742 and 5742G models. Two different Heatsinks. Was wondering how important…

One screw missing on back panel pretty much affects nothing... not to worry. If you need, look on ebay or aliexpress

M2.5x6 easy to find on ebay. 

Where were you using the laptop? On a desk/table or on a bed?

win10 pro...

no problem in finding a replacement part... AR5B97 T77H167.07. Very plentiful on ebay as they are used in many machines. NI.23600.072 i believe is the acer part number... not sure, but i think it is.

no problem in finding a replacement part... AR5B97 T77H167.07. Very plentiful on ebay as they are used in many machines.

Thanks for the reply... Are you saying that beyond the AR5B97 number, the other numbers have to exactly conform as well? 

thanks

Thanks. Since my screen had a sticker: LG LP156WH2, WXGA (1366x768 I did my search based upon that and bought one. Should have it by next week.

Just installed win10 on my acer aspire 5742 this morning. Perefect, no problems or conflicts with hardware. 

yeah, my personal take is that a laptop needs the above treatment yearly. 

Repeating the same as the previous post, check and see if the RAM is PC3 1333Mhz. On the other hand, try cleaning (with a pencil eraser) the contact points and reseating the modules. If you can get to the BIOS, there is a built in mem test. If not, use third party mem test software on a cd. Hopefully you can boot to the…