Planning to buy Acer Nitro and this will be my first time buying a laptop actually, what are the things I need to consider/keep in mind and what are the primary issues and concerns about Acer in general especially when the unit aged and in the long run of using it. I'm really avoiding the future hassle and use the unit at its full potential
Hello, I recently bought the Nitro V16S (ANV16S-41-R2AJ) and was looking into eventually upgrading the 1TB storage space to 2TB down the line. The RAM isn't an issue for me at the moment (32GB DDR5), but storage is something I always seem to need, so this is my main question. I'm not big on laptops/computers (I've played on console for most of my life) so I'm sorry if this is a dumb ask or not.
My D and 6 Keys keeps on shutting off intermittently, Sometimes it works for an hour then suddenly it blips out and blips on again, the numpad 6 is also dead but If I Numlock it, it works on the numpad, what should I do?
I need to replace the dc jack of Acer Nitro 5 cuz the charger ain't going all the way in. I tried looking for the parts in local markets but it can't seem to find it. I have found the part I need on ebay but they are not shipping at the address (country) I currently live in.
It would be helpful if someone can guide me where can I buy the part either online or offline. I currently live in India. If someone in India can help me find and ship the dc jack to me, It would be very useful.
Thanks in advance..
TL;DR: My Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58 stays completely black for ~2 minutes before the Acer logo appears, then boots into Windows and works perfectly normally. The only major issue is that dGPU/NVIDIA GPU-only mode no longer works. Looking for people who have experienced this specifically and whether BIOS/EC recovery or BIOS reprogramming fixed it. Please don’t suggest basic CMOS reset, power reset, battery drain, etc.
Full issue
Hey everyone,
I have an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58 with a very strange issue.
When I press the power button:
The fact that the black screen happens before the Acer logo is what makes this particularly strange. It seems more like something happening during POST/firmware/hardware initialization rather than a normal Windows driver issue.
I’m especially interested in whether this could be related to:
BIOS/EC firmware
BIOS corruption or a bad BIOS state
NVIDIA dGPU initialization
MUX switch / GPU-only mode
POST taking an unusually long time
Motherboard-level dGPU/MUX circuitry
BIOS Crisis Recovery
BIOS reprogramming
I’ve already gone through the usual basic troubleshooting, so please don’t suggest CMOS reset, power reset, battery drain, holding the power button, etc. I’m specifically looking for deeper troubleshooting or people who have encountered this exact behavior.
Has anyone with an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58 experienced:
~2 minutes black screen → Acer logo → Windows works normally → dGPU-only mode doesn’t work?
If you fixed it, I’d especially like to know whether BIOS recovery, BIOS reprogramming, EC firmware recovery, or motherboard repair solved it.
Thanks!
Problem
When I turn on the laptop:
The fan starts running normally.
The keyboard backlight turns on.
The display remains completely black.
There is no Acer logo.
I don't hear any startup sound.
The keyboard does not appear to respond.
Pressing Caps Lock does not change the indicator.
Pressing F2 repeatedly during startup does not bring up the BIOS.
It seems to power on, but it does not appear to complete POST.
Things I have already tried
Forced shutdown
Removed external devices
Power reset
Battery-reset pinhole
Tried entering BIOS ( pressing F2 while turning on)
Keyboard test (After turning it on, I pressed Caps Lock several times.but indicator disnot reapond)
Current condition
At the moment:
Fan: Running
Keyboard backlight: On
Display: Completely black
Acer logo: Not appearing
BIOS/F2: Not accessible
Caps Lock: Not responding
Startup sound: None
i just bought a new Nitro v 15, recently I've been having a weird issue, when i use it sometimes I feel small tingling and some sensations in my body. I don't understand why exactly but I knew there some was kind of electrical anomaly. why does this happen? And how to solve it, also it only seems to happen to me
My AN515-57 i5 11400h 3050ti Upgraded (32GB, 1TB) is crashing/freezing when I try to play games when the charger is plugged in. I have tried watching, reading forms from the Acer community on how to handle this specific problem. I am still searching as of now and it has been 2 weeks and I tried repasting a day ago and it did somehow lower the temps from 71 degrees to 40 - 60 degrees on idle (one of my problems last week). But even tho I repasted it when trying to game while charging it just freezes and I am forced to restart my laptop.
My brother felt something blocking the L key so he decided to remove the key cap where he suffered a big L the two bottom part of the clamp got damaged and got lost. May I know where can I find a cheap replacement for the L key? The model is AN515-57.
What is this weird kind of update ? This is the first time it's happening like this and it even maxed out my fans for this update. Wtf is this and why is there a warning to no unplug it ? ( I live in a place where power loss is very normal )
I order Acer nitro 5 i5 12th gen 4GB rtx 3050 at 70k from flipkart and today i received Acer nitro Lite 16 i5 13th gen 6GB rtx 3050
I need for college coding [CS at NIT] and mostly no gaming..
So what to do now which is better,and should i return
[The invoice has mention Nitro 5 not lite 16 so will it create problem for warranty claim]
I have a acer nitro v15 with Intel ultra core 5 210 h and rtx 4050 . The moment I launch a game the the temperature reaches 100, and it remains around 96 -100 . It is under warranty , so I called the service engineer he has cleaned and repasted everything , and still, the cpu reaches 100 instantly when launching a game and remains around there . I have no idea what to do anymore.
Acer says NitroSense v4+ doesn't support our model. That's not a hardware limitation. Your BIOS already implements the entire fan/thermal control interface — Acer just stopped listing the AN515-58 in a text file inside the app, and their installer looks for a chip our BIOS doesn't report.
I worked out exactly what blocks it and wrote an installer that handles the whole thing. On my AN515-58-50YE (i5-12500H / RTX 3050, BIOS V2.21, Win 11) I now have NitroSense 5.2.57 with:
nvidia-smi — it's real, not faked)Screenshots below.
Download (everything in one zip, ~623 MB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yh6VV3nWQnNHfKndo_9ESKGYPr_XrE2H/view?usp=sharing
I'm hosting the full package because this specific version is genuinely hard to find on Acer's support site. The Acer files inside are original and unmodified — still digitally signed by Acer, and the app package is still signed by Microsoft. Acer's own License.txt is included. The only things I added are two PowerShell scripts and a README.
1. Do NOT uninstall your current NitroSense v3.1 yet. Leave it until you've confirmed fan control works. Both can be installed at the same time — just don't have both apps open at once, or they'll fight over your fan settings.
2. Not every AN515-58 is the same. Ours shipped with different GPUs (3050 / 3050 Ti / 3060) and several BIOS revisions. The installer checks your firmware first and refuses to install if your BIOS doesn't properly respond. If it stops, that's it working correctly — please don't force it, and please reply with your BIOS version so I can track which ones work.
3. This isn't official Acer support. It's a user script. It makes a System Restore point first and ships with a proper uninstaller. Your risk.
Step 0 — unblock the zip FIRST. This one trips everybody up. Windows marks anything downloaded from the internet as blocked, and if you extract first, every file inside stays blocked.
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Then extract it.
Step 1 — Extract the zip somewhere simple, like your Desktop. Don't move files around inside it.
Step 2 — Right-click Install-NitroSense5.ps1 → Run with PowerShell
Step 3 — Click Yes on the admin prompt.
Step 4 — Wait ~3 minutes. It prints DONE when finished.
Step 5 — Open NitroSense from the Start Menu.
Scenario → Fan → Max. Listen. Your fans should audibly ramp up within a few seconds. Then set it back to Auto.
| Result | What to do |
|---|---|
| Fans respond | You're done. It's fully working. |
| Nothing happens | Run Uninstall-NitroSense5.ps1 and stay on v3.1. No harm done. |
Only after the fans respond should you even consider removing v3.1 — and there's no real need to remove it at all.
Temperatures look fake (GPU showing 11 °C): the installer left its safety mode on. Open PowerShell normally (not admin) and run:
Set-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Acer\XSense' SimulatorMode 0
Then close and reopen NitroSense.
"Running scripts is disabled on this system": you skipped Step 0. Unblock the zip and re-extract. If it still complains, open PowerShell as Admin and run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass, then try again.
Want it gone: right-click Uninstall-NitroSense5.ps1 → Run with PowerShell. Removes the services, app, config package and settings. Doesn't touch v3.1.
Three separate things, none of them your hardware:
SupportedModel.txt from its own bundle and only lists 2023+ models. One registry value (skipCheck) tells it to skip that check — that's the entire fix for the "not supported" popup.ACPI\VEN_1025&DEV_165F, which we don't have, so the services never get installed. Crucially there's no kernel driver involved — it's just service registration, which means no signing, no Secure Boot issues, nothing to patch.Meanwhile the firmware exposes AcerGamingFunction with all 25 methods — SetGamingFanTable, SetGamingFanSpeed, SetGamingProfile, everything. The driver package even ships Nitro AN515-58.ini containing our exact GPU's overclock table. Acer built support for this model and then dropped it from a list.
If you go poking yourself, don't launch it with --dev. It gets you past the model check so it looks like the answer — but it also repoints the UI at a developer path that doesn't exist in the shipped build, and you get a blank window that looks like a crash. That one cost me an hour.
If it works — or if the firmware check refuses — reply with:
msinfo32 → BIOS Version/Date)I'll maintain a compatibility list in this post. If it works on other Nitro/Predator models, I'd like to know that too.
Yeah so last Christmas, I had my first "gaming" laptop, because when we were around the store we found an Acer nitro V15 with some pretty promos, and so we paid it for 600€ (reconditioned I’m but not entirely sure). Anyway since I had it I try to put as much care on him as I can, frequently watching termals, cleaning it often because its a dust magnet, did a bit of tunning and all. But like a few weeks ago, while cleaning the fans, I noticed something pretty intriguing : it was missing a screw from the heatsink over the CPU. I mean my ryzen 7 7735HS was always a bit hotter than the RTX4050 but I wouldn’t have suspected a missing screw with the temps alone. Looking back on my first picture of the motherboard I took the day I had it, the screw wasn’t here so I guess it never was since I buyed it.
Just to say, always open your gaming computer you get with promos on Christmas, might as well get a surprise ☠️
I installed all necessary drivers(from Acer Nitro website and Nvidia),and it still performs extremely bad.The laptop is on performance mode.
And this isn’t the only issue i had with it.The second day after i bought it,horizontally lines popped on my lower part of the screen,hopefully the warranty helped and i got the display replaced.
What should i do? Delete all the drivers installed today and install them again? It might my fault and i installed them wrong? i doubt so.Does anyone has a list of mandatory drivers to download?
The laptop is acer nitro v15 ANV 15-51 rtx 5050.
And yes the laptop is plugged in.
I buy mine just before COVID starts and helped me a lot during lockdown, a couple of hours ago I was playing a game and all of the sudden it died, all power completely off, the keyboard and mouse connected on the USB also shutted off, i unplugged it from everything, try to drain remaining power from the board or something like that i read online, also tried to disconected the battery but nothing, not even the leds turn on, does anybody know what might be?
Randomly started happening, any ideas why? Battery is in good health (according to sys report), no disconnected connectors or anything. Any troubleshooting recommendations?
Cleaned the fans and vents of dust.
CPU and GPU temps are in the 30s to 40s celsius.
I put it in quiet mode.
Nothing I do makes the fans quiet. They are consistently loud.
So I have this acer nitro v15 Ryzen 5 6600h rtx 3050 16gb ram and I am facing this problem since yesterday there is a black screen 1 for second and it's very annoying does anyone know how to fix this please it'll be very helpful
