Comments on: Taking apart Acer Aspire 5100

By: Jessa

Jessa — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:13:37 +0000

Hello! I have an Acer Aspire 5100, but its charger is not working anymore. Will any acer charger fit the laptop? Thank you!

By: Kevin Haney

Kevin Haney — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:05:56 +0000

I have an Acer 5100 model BL51 and wanted to upgrade the hard drive before it dies. Your photo of the hard drive bay shows what looks like a SATA connector on top of the IDE connector. All I have is an IDE connector but the bios has SATA boot selection. Different motherboard or is the SATA connection in a different spot. Thanks for any help you can give me.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:34:22 +0000

Hi My acer 5102 stopped in a scan and now on startup i get error 0200 failure fixed disc 0 so I guess the hard drive is dead. I cannot enter the bios because it needs a password. I don’t think I ever set one and have tried some shown as defaults on other websites but no luck. I have a restore factory defaults CD but will this work with a new drive without having access to the bios? Any help please>

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:12:50 +0000

I have a acer aspire 5100 w/ Vista showing nothing on the screen @ boot with both sticks of memory in it . Removed one stick of memory and I get an error saying ; RTL 8139 (X) / 8130 / 810 X PCI Ethernet controller v2.13 ( 020326 ) PXE-E61 ; media test failure , check cable . PXE-MOF ; Exiting PXE ROM . It worked fine until I dropped a heavy book on the keyboard while it was on , then it locked-up – I shut it down . When I tried to restart it all I saw was a blank screen , no beeping , no noises of any kind . I went into Bios and my HD is not shown – it should be at # 1 SATA – WD1200BEV , nothing there . I carefully disassembled the HD to see if the heads were stuck or if there was any kind of visual damage to it after the book fell on it and it looked to be O.K. . I even tried switching the sticks of memory from one slot to the other and that didn’t work . It will only show something on the screen with 1 stick of memory in it . I changed the booting sequence around in several different ways , didn’t work , so I would change it back each time to the original configuration . I tried booting from the DVD using my Vista disc and 1 stick of memory and it loaded the files . When the screen came up asking what do want to do : Install or Repair , I chose repair and another box came up that should have shown my C; drive in it , but it was blank . Some people say it’s the HD thats bad , well , if thats the case why am I getting an error message about a PCI Ethernet controller . Another person said something that kind of made sense , maybe the housing for the memory is damaged since it will only work with 1 stick in it . I don’t know how to test it without actually replacing it . I’ve been trying to find out where this PCI Ethernet controller is located to see whats going on there . I guess I’ve rammbled on enough and hope that there is someone out there that can help solve this problem without loosing my laptop .

By: zalo

zalo — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 05:24:16 +0000

hi my aspire 5100 has windows 7 64 bits but it slows when use to many programs, would like to update my drivers please help me thaks

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:38:11 +0000

In reply to rich p. @ rich p,

my laptop doesnâ€t respond to keyboard or mouse, and usb connections dont seem to work.

Does it start at all? Does it boot into Windows? Any errors at all?

By: rich p

rich p — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:46:17 +0000

my laptop doesn’t respond to keyboard or mouse, and usb connections dont seem to work.

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 03:48:09 +0000

Hi, I have a 2006 Acer Aspire 5100 that no longer works (I brought it to get fixed because it wouldn’t turn on, I paid the guy almost $400 to give me a new motherboard, a rip-off, I know) and then 4 months later it never turned back on again. So, needless to say, I got a new laptop but I kept the old one because there are a LOT of files I wanted from the old computer, some that were even accidentally deleted while it still worked that I was in process recovering when it crashed for good. I bought cables that are supposed to be able to connect from the non-working computer to my new one, but I can’t figure out how to disassemble and re-wire the whole thing without screwing something up or losing data. What I’m asking is, what are the odds of taking the SATA drive out instead and putting it into a Flash drive 2.0 USB enclosure to use the whole drive as a large flash drive, and retreave my lost data? Do I need to take out the memory chip too for this to work, and how do I go about connecting them to the new computer to get files? I know I would have to see what size the SATA drive is and buy a properly sized enclosure. Thank you for your help.

By: PCLAVER

PCLAVER — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:08:24 +0000

jai un pbleme avec mon acer 5100, depuis un moment quand j’allume j’ai ce msg “enter sata port 0 hdd user password” aider moi SVP!

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:13:50 +0000

In reply to Janko. @ Janko,

I have a problem with this model acer aspire 5100 which is to be heated and a lot of that when Iâ€m on the internet slows to brzinom.I would like to know what it is if anyone knows

Most likely it happens because the cooling module (heatsink) clogged with dust. Clean up the heatsink and fan and see if it fixes your problem. Also, could be fan failure. Make sure the fan spins when the laptop is hot. If not, you'll have to replace the fan.