- May 29, 2005
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A family friend of mine has a Acer S5 (http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/12/3151427/acer-aspire-s5-review). I think it' a few years old.
She contact me the other day to tell me that the magicflip's motor (I think she means the fans, but it could be the actual motor that raises and lowers the magicflip) is making the terrible noise that the above Verge review mentions - but it's doing it nonstop. It's on constantly. I have not witnessed this problem in person - yet.
I'm conflicted on trying to troubleshoot this myself. I'm usually her software side tech support, not so much hardware, so id probably take it to the guy I use locally that works on computers. But more so than that.. I''m not sure it's fixable.
If both fans are working properly, and they're just constantly running, I'm not sure what I can do about that. Even if I send it off. If its the magic flip's motor, I feel like this is a specialized piece from Acer, that would require re-ordering from them specifically, and may be kind of expensive.
She openly mentioned just buying a new computer, so that's certainly an option, but if I can fix her computer for less than $200, it seems silly to buy a new computer. I'm just not sure that's possible!
Any thoughts on what I should do, or better yet, anyone have experience with this god awful magicflip?
She contact me the other day to tell me that the magicflip's motor (I think she means the fans, but it could be the actual motor that raises and lowers the magicflip) is making the terrible noise that the above Verge review mentions - but it's doing it nonstop. It's on constantly. I have not witnessed this problem in person - yet.
I'm conflicted on trying to troubleshoot this myself. I'm usually her software side tech support, not so much hardware, so id probably take it to the guy I use locally that works on computers. But more so than that.. I''m not sure it's fixable.
If both fans are working properly, and they're just constantly running, I'm not sure what I can do about that. Even if I send it off. If its the magic flip's motor, I feel like this is a specialized piece from Acer, that would require re-ordering from them specifically, and may be kind of expensive.
She openly mentioned just buying a new computer, so that's certainly an option, but if I can fix her computer for less than $200, it seems silly to buy a new computer. I'm just not sure that's possible!
Any thoughts on what I should do, or better yet, anyone have experience with this god awful magicflip?