as for the webcam blackening problem, just on your webcam, click on the video enhancement button which looks like an eye, at the bottom left corner, then click advance and then camera control and finally tick the low light compensation..hope that helps..

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Added on September 17, 2012, 1:27 amI became an owner of this v3 571g few days ago due to warranty incident..which came with i7 3630qm core..face a few problems so far,
1st, it hangs a while for some starts in vary programs at 1st..such as open folder..but after a few times, it smooth back, till now still ok.
2nd, theres one time, when in the middle of clicking in the window, everythg gone..and it went blue screen, then restart indicating no bootable device..after manual shutdown by the power button..its ok back..==
3rd, which happen since the 1st day, the wifi connectivity problem, at 1st it keep disconnect and reconnect with the access point..after some tuning and setting, it fine back, for a day, then start yesterday morning, it cant be connected till now..even after connected..the data transfer wont run and it will disconnect after that..all other notebooks have no connection problem..but when i try to connect to hotspot created using my phone, it connected smoothly..so i really dont understand why ady..hope expert out there can give some clues..thx..

This post has been edited by Kywong80: Sep 17 2012, 01:27 AM

No incompatibilities on adding another 4gb of kingston ram, just did that myself the moment i bought the laptop at the store itself. works fine, windows reports 8gb but says only 7.84gb is usable... usually the case with any combination of ram even if its the same ones, even on different machines. probably some memory has been allocated to the intel gpu.

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Added on September 17, 2012, 2:37 amThe "eye" button is only present on the Acer crystal eye webcam software, i also managed to solve the grainy fuzzing dots by increasing the noise reduction. But does this solution have effect on skype to improve my video capture?


and as for your network connectivity problem, what is the wirelefss adapter model present in your acer? Most Atheros cards have shitty connection ability.

This post has been edited by rossrosh007: Sep 17 2012, 03:22 AM

Your issue sounds like it may be related to a bad hard disk. As for the connectivity issue the wireless card itself may be going bad as well. You should bring it back to the service center to get them checked and replaced accordingly.

Thanks for the quick reply. In goes another 4gb ram, and hoping to buy an Intel 330 128gb too.

SGT76, During idle state, without a cooling-pad, while on battery, does the fan ever stop? like does it pause and then start again after a while; or does it spin continuously even until your battery is finished?

Hmm, I never really realized that. I've used mine all the time with a CM notebook cooler cause the GT640m gets real hot while gaming.

see if your fan does pause when the machine is idle. most laptops are suppose to, specially with ivy bridge, its a power-saving feature since the fan does take a lot of power. My samsung NP350V4X does pause its fan.

Have you monitored any of your temperatures? i used realtemp and gpu-z, playing battlefield 3 the temps highest 88-91c gpu; cpu 88c

let me know your idle temps as well, once u have rested the machine for about 30mins or more.

This post has been edited by rossrosh007: Sep 17 2012, 07:29 PM

OK, doing some testing now. The fan at idle does pause, at least I can't feel it nor hear it. Temps at idle are GPU: 42c, Core 0: 55c, Core 1: 52c, Core 2: 46c, Core 3: 48c.

Next will stress it with some games.

Whats your specs btw? wow my fan never pauses, even when nothing is running and i'm not using it, can always feel air flow from the fan

thanks, i appreciate you testing out your machine

specs are in the sig bro

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Added on September 19, 2012, 1:07 pmhaha, just now noticed the lappy part of the sig

Hope u can test it with bf3 and/or mw3

This post has been edited by rossrosh007: Sep 19 2012, 01:29 PM

Wow. So this is the only active(semi) owners club for these V3's i've found!

Anyway, Owners of a v3-771g-9875
Only upgraded the harddrive so far, with a vertex3. Man I love this laptop!

Anyone know if the wifi/bluetooth card's are switchable?

Would hate to order an intel one to use WiDi(wireless display) and find out there is a white list in the bio's for the network cards.

acer v3 471G users here...
anyone successfully upgraded to windows 8?

Yup I did... Very Smooth transition from windows 7 to windows 8 (upgrade)

only have problem with how to flash UEFI bios... still haven't figured out yet

oh i didnt dare to flash that,because if error occurs laptop may be gone

haha... the upgrade is ok no problem with it...

heck I can even Clean install and there is still no problem..

so it should not be a problem to upgrade mate

i'll just leave it there
471G seriously not bad...specs good,price cheap

yup.. Acer V Series better than the previous generation Laptop...

Loving it.. will use it for next 4 to 5 years before changing

but this thread is very quiet

The whole Discussion section for Notebook is rather quiet for most threads.

Anyway, I just installed Windows 8 on my V3-571G. No problems encountered so far. Acer seems to have all the drivers ready for it, except for some e.g the USB 3 driver but everything's working fine.