This is a little off topic, but I thought that the information in this blog could be very useful to other people with the Acer Aspire 6920G laptop (pictured above). The laptop is basically great, and very good for client meetings with the 16″ HD screen, NVIDIA graphics card and Blue Ray player. An interesting feature is the multimedia controller to the left of the keypad. This allows you to perform some basic tasks quickly using the touch pad, such as changing / muting the volume, controlling windows media playback etc.
Recently the multimedia controller will unexplainably lock up. All the lights are on but it does not respond to the standard touch as it should. This can be particularly embarrassing during a demonstration with the client. The controller on my laptop was frozen for a number of days before I found a solution. Sadly it wasn’t a simple case of changing a setting on my machine, I had to reboot it by turning the laptop off and taking out the battery for 10 seconds. When I inserted the battery back in and started the latop back up it worked as normal.
This hasn’t happened since, and I’m uncertain as to why this even occurred in the first place. However, the laptop is still a great piece of kit so I can tolerate a few small techinical problems!
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Life saver!!!