20 Most Recent Acer Aspire AM5641-U5520A PC Desktop Questions & Answers

Sounds like your stuck on the Loading screen for the OS. If you bought it one week ago contact customer support or return it and get it fixed. You could easily do this by reinstalling the OS but you should have a professional do it since your waranty for a year should be up from the maker.

Most any standard PCI NIC will work for you, as long as you have an available port on your PC. Here is one from newegg.com at a great price. It's a Rosewill and I've bought that brand often. Rosewill RC 404 Ethernet Card 10 100 1000Mbps PCI 1 RJ45

If now there is ok you don't need to replace it. But if you really need that then this one is almost identical
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500058

You have a PCI-E slot. It may be 8x or 16x but they are all backwards compatible. The other consideration for a video card is physical space in that case and your power supply. What video card were you looking at buying?

I would if this were my computer see if there is any PCI or AGP video slots and use a new card first "Video" instead of the integrated one provided off the board. More than likely from your description display is the issue check monitor make sure this is working as well on another computer. This is how I would deal with this matter. Then when all else fails I would get another board. You can pretty much use any board that is compatible with the hardware you have that fits your board. ATX check the power supply pins etc. Make sure the slots will fit. Etc. You want to use as many good parts as you can. Most likely by the time you were to purchase another board you could maybe think about a bare bones kit, you can mate them with your parts you have already get a combo CPU and board setup. Depending on your expertise I always encourage people to experience one build in their lifetime it is fun and a great learning process. John

I have a few more questions for you and I might be able to help you. Is this a brand new computer? Have you added any video cards to your computer? Is the monitor plugged in by VGA, DVI, HDMI, or USB (go to link below to see connections). What type of monitor do you have? I know this is all a lot of questions and you just want your monitor to work but I assure you these are all important questions in order to find the right solution for you.
http://tiplet.com/tip/what-you-need-to-know-about-lcd-monitors/

There should be some more numbers on the board.

Probably between the expansion slots or near the edges.

If you notice a "FEW" capacitors blown then there may be a more serious issue with the board or in rare cases the power supply itself.

A replacement board would in this case be a lot cheaper than the cost involved with a repair.

Luckily quite a few boards would fit in that case.

From a persona point of view and the fact that do do seem to have some damage it is reasonable to expect more damage to possibly the CPU itself or the RAM and maybe even other components.

To reduce the costs and provided you have both the time and some experience you may want to look at building a new machine

Cases are quite cheap and offer more expansion facilities than the acer one.
A new motherboard with CPU can also be had quite cheaply

Or you could even consider what is knows as a bare bones system.
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:333|&Sort=4

Using that type of approach you could build the system and try the ram from your old one and if that is fine use it. Same with other internal devices.

As for the operating system if you have a proper copy of the operating system you could use it to install on a newer computer using the COA (Certificate of Authenticity) from the old one.

If you only have restore Cd's then it would be problematic (but not impossible)

I have found staples to be a little expensive for repairs so may tend to look at some of the smaller more reputable tech shops in your area.

Without more numbers etc from the boara it will be difficult to make an exact specification or suggest the nearest board.

A check on ebay may give you a few sources

http://shop.ebay.ca/i.html?CPU%2520Socket%2520Type=LGA775%2520Socket&_nkw=Acer%20motherboard&_dmpt=Motherboards&_fln=1&_ssov=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282

they are here http://www.findlaptopdriver.com/driversaspireaacerm5641u5520a/.for all os so this must be the installer package version.hope this was what your after....... DT

Download the ethernet and device drivers from the Acer WEB site. Makesure you select the model of your computer the drivers you that require thatmatches the Windows version that is installed on your computer. Use this link toget to the Acer support: -
http://www.acersupport.com/drivers_download.aspx

sorry but you need to get a new computer

try to check your video card. maybe it has a problem. if you reboot and you hear a beeping sound, your video card and/or your memory card is corroded. you can solve this by using an eraser to clean up the pins of your memory/video card from corrosion.

upon starting and the screen first appears keep hitting the F8 ket for the self repair mode. Select the repir mode and see if that helps you out

your video has failed . on this unit I work on this exact unit every day. the video is what we call integrated and there is a big problem with this there is no video card it is integrated on the mother board . the problem is the motherboard is almost impossible to find. my company services the whole united states and if your unit brakes and you have a secondary warranty i am the first line of contact . and the motherboard for this unit I can rarely fin . if it helps the part number is mb.sam09.001

i will suggest you to send the computer to acer service center and they will replace the new mother board. it will take some time but apart from that they will also check other things as well. you are investing money to replace yourself which can cause more problem. mother board should be the right one so that it should match with the other components of your comp. it wil cost you bit more but the factory fittings will be better than what you will do yourself and risk involved is less. you can also claim them if anything goes wrong. it doesnot matter if it is out of warranty or in waranty. dude you are paying the money and thats more important.

Hello
To get a connection guide all you need to do is go to the web site of the manufacturer of the board and contact support, they can provide the connection info u need to get everything hooked up correctly, that is the only way you will get that, we have no diagrams here at Fixya.

Hi, once you have the External Monitor connected; go to, from the Desktop Screen, right click to open window, select Personalize. Next scroll to find: Display Settings. You can make all the adjustments to correctly connect the monitor, updating drivers etc. Follow any given instruction when changes are complete. "Rating the solution is appreciated, if it helped, thanks."

If you have the system restore CDs or a restore partition you can try to do a repair install of windows through that. Let me know if you have the media or a partition and I can assist you further.

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