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Acer Desktop: Device wont wake from sleep, but gets worse.

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:59:32 -0700

Hi Team!

I have an Acer Desktop. it’s old, but I’m really trying not to spend too much at the moment. When I let the device fall asleep for more than 10 minutes, the computer won’t wake from sleep. however, it also loses responsiveness. holding the power button does not boot it up. I have checked if it is the front panel having an intermittent cold circuit, by opening the PC and shorting the front panel Pwr Pins. This did not fix the issue.

as I continued my testing, if I leave it to the point where the device doesn’t wake and the power button doesn’t power it down if held, if I unplug it, wait 10 seconds, and plug it back in, the device doesn’t boot. I have to leave it for a few hours before the device will power on again.

This feels like a PSU or board issue, but I was wondering if anyone has experienced this, and can either verify my thoughts or point me in the right direction?

⟐ Answer accepted 2月 14, 2020 at 17:59 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: My all in one Acer Aspire ZC-700G is in a boot loop.

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:28:08 -0700

My all in one Acer Aspire ZC-700G is in a boot loop. Whenever I power it on, it gets to the Acer logo and resets. This didn’t start until after the latest update.

When I press F2, the computer restarts before it can open the bios screen.

⟐ Answered 6月 05, 2024 at 16:28 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: Can't login to gifted system

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:06:35 -0700

My ACER is a desktop.

An friend gave it to me and cannot remember her password on the blue screen. It has her email address and a place for a password. No matter what I put in there it gives me the message the “Your PC is offline.

Please sign in with the last password used on this PC. I have tried to get into the BIOS OR Windows but nothing seems to work. She is fine with going back to factory settings.

Any ideas of what to try?

⟐ Answer edited 7月 07, 2021 at 15:06 GMT-7

Acer Aspire U5: How to clean this PC.

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:05:09 -0700

⟐ Edited 4月 03, 2019 at 7:05 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: Cannot delete an unsecure webpage.

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:57:21 -0700

I think I have a virus. I try to make msn my homepage and I keep getting an unsecured page that is nearly blank except for a header with tabs about plane flight arrivals, etc.

⟐ Answered 1月 02, 2018 at 21:57 GMT-7

Acer Asprire AX3300: Keyboard mouse is not showing in display

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:33:50 -0700

Keyboard mouse is not showing in display

⟐ Answer edited 11月 07, 2025 at 21:33 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: Bluetooth earphones suddenly stopped working after updating to Win 11

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:00:49 -0700

Hi there!

I was hoping to get some help with the Kurdene Wireless Earbuds Bluetooth that I purchased in 2021 from amazon. They are working great but I was on Windows 10 all this time and recently my Acer Predator Desktop PO3-600 computer updated to Windows 11. The earphones work great with my phone and other tablets, but now there is no audio at all in Windows 11 through my earphones. I have tried everything. reinstalled the Intel Wireless Bluetooth, bought a new TP-LINK Bluetooth adapter dongle....but still there is no audio... does Kurdene have any drivers that I can update with? I can hear audio fine through wired headphones and all other Bluetooth devices i have ( Bluetooth keyboard and mouse) also work great with the computer's Bluetooth Adapter...but its just the earphones that are not producing any audio. When I go into the sound properties on my computer, it shows the green volume bars moving, but there is no audio coming through my earphones....Ive gotten help from Chatgpt and CoPilot, its all going round and round in circles.... Any advice on how I can fix this? Or should I get a whole new set of Bluetooth earphones for Windows 11?

⟐ Answer accepted 10月 03, 2025 at 17:00 GMT-7

Acer Asprire AX3300: My pc has no wifi showing?

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:00:11 -0700

My pc has no wifi showing

⟐ Commented 7月 19, 2025 at 2:00 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: How do I bypass my on/off switch till I get a new one?

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:58:19 -0700

Which color wires do I touch together? I have two whites and one blue and one green.

⟐ Marked as duplicate 2月 14, 2025 at 2:58 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: On/off switch wire colors

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:58:19 -0700

Which wires do I use to bypass bad switch?

⟐ Marked as duplicate 2月 14, 2025 at 2:58 GMT-7

Acer Asprire AX3300: My Pc has smoke coming out from top,where the fan is. Any idea?

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:56:10 -0700

Can you help me find the problem, my pc has smoke coming out from the top of it.

⟐ Answered 8月 21, 2024 at 8:56 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: My computer has been struggling and seems to have finally failed

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:47:15 -0700

I have a computer that worked well for several years. Over the last year or so, it's been freezing up a bit, and over the last couple weeks I have been experiencing severe issues with the pc.

The main issue is that in the middle of me performing basic tasks, like using Google Docs, or watching youtube, or even more complex tasks, like editing in premiere pro or playing more intense video games, it will freeze up. I still hear all the audio that's playing and can hear my friends on discord, but the displays freeze until I hold the power switch and the pc shuts off.

Now, I can't even turn on the pc. The fans spin, but display has no signal. I have over 500gb very important information on there.

I dusted out the inside, individually tested each ram stick, and now I don't know what to do.

⟐ Answered 10月 19, 2023 at 21:47 GMT-7

Acer Aspire U5: Screen glass broken can you replace?

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:15:00 -0700

Need to replace Acer Aspire screen glass

⟐ Answered 10月 07, 2023 at 19:15 GMT-7

Aspire T180: Acer CPU front panel connection

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:20:17 -0700

I am not getting the connection on front panel

⟐ Answer edited 8月 16, 2023 at 1:20 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: Why is my CPU fan running constantly. EVEN WHEN THE UNIT IS OFF!?

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:34:53 -0700

When powering down the (A)TC-780A the CPU fan stays running, or worse, ramps up to 100% and stays running. I want to reiterate, this is with the unit off. The power light on the front is dark. Clean install of Win10, all drivers and BIOS updated. Any help appreciated.

⟐ Commented 11月 14, 2019 at 22:34 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: PC shut down, turns on, but won't boot anymore.

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:28:13 -0700

Hello, I was playing a game and my PC randomly shut down (like there was power outage). I turned it on but I just heard loud noise inside the case, monitor was not turning on. I dissembled the PC and dusted it out, after which there was no more noise, but it was still not booting.

After a search online I found an option that let me boot the PC - but I had to remove my GPU (Nvidia Geforce 970) and plug in monitor into motherboard (since it also has integrated graphics). I was relieved that it BOOTS with onboard graphics!

Now can anyone tell me some more things to check before calling it a dead GPU? Is it possible that PSU could be faulty or cable that runs from PSU to GPU? Or something else? I'm in no financial position to buy new GPU so will look into every option prior to that.

Thanks in advance for replies!

⟐ Commented 11月 14, 2019 at 12:28 GMT-7

Acer Aspire U5: power problem killed my motherboard?

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:04:15 -0700

We had a power problem while my acer aspire was in sleep mode. It blew the power supply on my son’s computer. he shut mine off. After the power problem was fixed my acer’s keyboard mouse and display would not come on. When you press the power button you could hear the beep and the fan and drive running but no input from the computer for the monitor. we tested the keyboard mouse and monitor on another computer and they work there. does that sound like a complete MB failure or could the processor be ok?

⟐ Answered 8月 08, 2019 at 6:04 GMT-7

Acer Aspire U5: How to fix automatic repair loop?

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:55:49 -0700

So i turn on the computer, the acer logo pops up, then black screen then pops up again, says '“preparing automatic repair", and then shows up the blue screen that says “continue to windows 10, troubleshoot, turn off computer" ive used google and tried a lot of things, ive tried chkdsk thing, tried a lot with command console, tried usb but it wont let me boot it into the usb, ive tried restore, ive tried factory resetting it with both options, “there was a problem resetting your pc", ive tried startup repair too, idk what to do at this point, i got the computer 2 days ago and it started doing this yesterday, my pc is an ACER ASPIRE U5-620

⟐ Answer edited 3月 13, 2019 at 8:55 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: six beeps at power black screen

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:48:40 -0700

permanently beeping when power on ( 6 beeps) and don`t start

Acer Aspire TC 120

⟐ Answered 2月 19, 2019 at 13:48 GMT-7

Acer Desktop: Why doesn't my Aspire E 15 Acer turn on - only had it 11 mos...

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 09:08:38 -0700

Acer says my warranty is up - purchased 03/05/17 from QVC and I'm having a difficult time connecting w/support. I did leave it on charger most of the time.

⟐ Answer accepted 10月 01, 2018 at 9:08 GMT-7