Busta Bloodnut Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago So I finally got my most wanted laptop, the Acer Aspire 8930g! Came across its existence around the beginning of the year when i was looking at an article about unique looking laptops and this machine was on there and ever since i seen i wanted it SOOO bad lol. But as soon as i looked on Ebay to get one, all i find is parts and I know as a collector that's not a good sign lol. So as months go by and only seeing parts I finally got tired of just waiting. After trying to buy these machines from seller from Europe who didn't want to sell to me, assuming they didn't want to deal with the hassle, which is understandable. So I discovered someone made a post on a Facebook page about PC's etc about last year, about wanting to fix it up. So i message him asking if he had done anything to it and wanted to sell it. Normally, I dont do that but i wanted this machine so bad lol. So he said he hadn't done anything to it and was willing to sell it since he didn't want it just sitting there. So i buy it and i get it today. I go to plug it in and when I tried to do that i noticed it wouldnt go into the port. So i look and the power jack pin was bent. So i straighten out best i can and then it finally plugs in and turn it on since there's no hdd or ssd in it, i just go to BIOS. Just to see it if it works. It boots to Bios. Good. So i get an ssd and put it in and connect my windows installation usb. As soon as it boots into the the installation drive, it shuts off. Im like hmm...that's strange...lets try that again...and it shuts down again. Im like wow...never encountered this before. So i put the usb into another port, same thing. And then another port, same thing. Then, i thought maybe the charger is too much for the machine? (135w adapter). I unplug it and it boots into the installation disk. So then i look up why that is and apparently its a motherboard issue? I really hope not lol. I bought another power jack since maybe its because of the power jack pin being bent. But it probably is the motherboard since it wont boot to windows via just adapter. If it is the motherboard at least i have all the parts and all i gotta do is get another motherboard. This isnt a need help post, as im just posting about my machine in general, but if you want to give advice on what i can do about this not working feel free! My rigs: (I collect laptops like Boomers collect muscle cars, though I'm VERY selective) My Alienware Armada: Alienware m18x r2 (Primary): Intel Core i7-3940xm•Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080m•NVME Samsung 990 Pro 2TB•Samsung 840 EVO mSata 1TB• 32gb 1600mhz Alienware m18x r2 (Secondary): Intel Core i7-3940xm•Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070m•NVME Samsung 990 Pro 1TB•Samsung mSata 1TB•32gb 1600mhz Alienware m18x r2: Intel Core i7-3610qm•Nvidia Quadro P4000m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•32gb 1600mhz Alienware m18x r2 (Yes, I now have a 4th one lol): Intel Core i7-3630qm•Nvidia Quadro P5000m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•32gb 1600mhz Alienware m17x r4: Intel Core i7-3940xm•Nvidia GeForce GTX 980m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•32gb 1600mhz Alienware m17x r3: Intel Core i7-2720qm•AMD Radeon HD 7970m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz Alienware m17x r2: Intel Core i7-940xm•AMD Radeon HD 7970m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz Alienware m15x: Intel Core i7-940xm•Nvidia GeForce GTX 980m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz Alienware m14x r2: Intel Core i7-3610qm•Nvidia GeForce GT 650m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz Alienware m11x r3: Intel Core i7-2617m•Nvidia GeForce GT 540m•Samsung 870 EVO 500gb•16gb 1600mhz My Non Alienware Fleet: Acer Aspire 7741gz | HP G71 | HP G72 | HP Pavilion G7 | HP Probook 450 G1 | Dell Latitude E5530 | Dell Latitude 3540 | Dell Studio 1749 | Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 | Fujitsu Lifebook Ah530 | Toshiba Satellite P755 | HP Probook 4530s | Lenovo G50-80 | HP Envy DV7-7000 Series | HP 15 BA Series | Gateway NV56r | HP HDX 18 | Toshiba Qosmio x305 | Toshiba Qosmio x505 | Toshiba Qosmio G55 | Toshiba Qosmio x875 | Acer Aspire 7540 | HP 350 G1 | Works in progress: Dell Latitude E6420 | Alienware m17x r1 (Sent to me by mistake) | Acer Aspire 8930g :(
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