Advent 5401

When it works it is ok, but when it fails, and it will, it cannot be fixed. They have an inherent graphic fault, Google it for confirmation. Return to retailer - do not make me laugh. Please not solder (even on 'fixes') will flow again, with same screen/graphics disasters.

Last report is that now the Motherboard is scrapped. Just Google Advent 5401 for explanations.

had it for 5 years never broke always works had virus and stuff it all went great laptop i love it

I bought the Advent 5401 for university course work and it was excellect and easy to use. Decided one day to run a anti-virus scan and during the scan the screen went blue. When i rebooted it had nothing but coloured lines. At this point it was 2 days out of warranty. Went back to PC World to see if they would do anything for me. The guy in the shop told me to **** off with it as it was out of warranty and to buy a new one on. He said they were in the business of selling not repairing. Temnporarly repaired it myself until i could afford a new one. Looking to buy an old one now to use as parts so i can try and repair my own for one of the children. Except for the graphics problem they were a very well specked laptop. If anyone is interested in selling me their old one (minus hard drive) please let me know and you can put it on e-bay and post the description here for me. sorry for it being so long. Thanks for reading.....

even thow the laptop as been fine it to bigin with it seems to develop more and more problems as time go's on!!!! all so it would be nice to have more conrol as window crashed and was unrecoverble loaded windows xp in but seems the only way to get the drivers is pay there dont seem to be anyway of just geting the drivers for the eternet so then at least you could get it to look for the drivers on the web

Bought this Laptop 2 years ago, video chip on mobo overheated!! Wrote to PC World using template from www.nvidiadefect.com and was awarded a voucher to have mobo replaced. Picked up after repair (mobo replacement)lasted 2 days then went again. Returned and got repaired a second time only for the overheating problem still there - used Rivatuner to monitor. Managed to fix myself by lowering the gpu clock rates to 300/600/300 from 400/800/400 under the performance 3d settings used when playing most games. Battery depleted and missing 1GB of Ram so returned to sort these issues out, should have back in a couple days, hopefully. Will need to purchase a cooling pad to avoid any further problems.

Oh, Advent 5401... After having the same problems as everyone else (overheating, apparently useless fan), I gave in and took my computer to be fixed as it kept shutting down due to heat. Turned out the processor wasn't properly attached, and the fans hadn't been placed correctly!!

I got those things fixed, and for about a week it's been fine, although yesterday it started making a noise like a car stalling, and I think this is the final warning before the big bang. I bought this laptop because it had all the bells and whistles at the time, but it's just been a big problem ever since. I will never buy a laptop from PC world again- they're no help at all!! Bad form, PC world. Bad form.

Glad i found these comments as my mum bought 2 advents 5041 for my daughters 2 years ago and 1 has just died with the same problem. They were both sent back under warranty in the first year due to faulty charge leads and mouse buttons.

Have had to have a new screen on the 1 that has just died 3 months ago and on the other half of the keys on the keyboard have fallen off.

Would not purchase Advent again, I am now in process of going through pc world to see if I can something done.

ok hear goes a have found a fix for the advent 6 screens grtahics card folt on laptop, i am fixing them all the time and i have tested them after use for up to 3 months all with no problems, ok hear is what you need to do, its a big fix but it works every time, first you need to take out mother board then cover board with foil but leve gathics card oprn, then heat in cercaler motion for 5 mins with heat gun, and then leve for 45 mins to cool, do not touch it for god sack, then rebiuld laptop back up and there you go she is displying 1 screen good as new, afetr i would recomed puting the laptop ona coling fan as the folt is because onboard grthics have to to hot, anyway it works and its stabile not like my spelling lol, hope it helps i also fix the folt for just 59.00 if anyone wants me to fix i will email me [email protected] , and we can arange deluvery to my shop in blackpool

I was gobsmacked to learn I have suffered the same fault as everyone else. Two weeks after my warranty I got the 6 screens and it refused to boot normally. DO NOT BUY THIS LAPTOP, OR FOR THAT MATTER ANY OTHER ACER LAPTOP

Avoid this laptop. Had it for just 23 months and now has an unrecoverable fault. The screen now displays white or half white half gray which is apparently a fault of the Nvidia graphics card. This is a problem inherent to the laptop (check online forums). Was told it is cheaper to buy a new laptop than fit a whole new motherboard which will probably develop the same fault.