Display Flickering

Hello Everyone

I'm new here and rather new to Acer Aspire one. I bought mine in october. Well everything was working fine untill this morning when I turned it on I notice the screen flickers a bit. It never did that before. And it doesn't do it always. Right now it's not doing it. And it hasn't been doing it for a while. My question is. Could it be a driver problem? Mine is the XP version by the way. Do you think I'll have to go to Acer for the warranty?

 

This is a quite common issue. If you do a search, there are already a few topics about this. But anyway, it has something to do with the HD access and when running on batteries. It seems there's not enough juice going to the screen, thus the flickering. The fix is to increase brightness to 50% i think, or to plug in. Acer knows about this problem and thus released a BIOS update to resolve this issue. But all the new BIOS dis was limit the screen brightness to hide this flickering. So just go to the Acer site and download the latest (.3305) BIOS. Cheers.

 

As mentioned, it is a known issue and seems to be related to the HDD. I had the Hitachi drive and it did that, seems it drew quite a bit of power. Changed to a Seagate 5400.5 and it didn't happen anymore on lowest brightness.

 

Thanks for all your help. I thought my Acer was broken haha . Mine came with western digital and the bios version is 3301. What new features does the new bios have over the older one? Is it a must have ?