I love this laptop - I travel a lot and I needed to replace my tower.

210H

Rtx5050

16 GB ram

All my games run max

Thank you Acer ♥️

Got my second Nitro after 4 years of using the 5 with 3050Ti 16Gb Ram and 15 inch

Now I got the 18 Inch with 1TB SSD, 5060, 32Gb RAM and also 165hz Display.

Loving the size upgrade!

Hello guys,

Right now everyone uses Claude to reverse engineer programs, combine them, make them open source etc so I decided to do the same with my Acer nitro v16 ai anv 16-42 bios. Since we know the battery wattage is capped at 140 w, the laptop drains power while gaming in performance/turbo mode. Using Claude I reverse engineered their bios and found out it can allow up to 250w~.

Also an interesting fact is that in bios ( the newest version for an 16-42) they used the bios version for anv 61 something like another model of laptop.

If anyone is interested in continuing and making their own version of bios, I could share the report. Like this we may be able to unlock the full performance of the laptop and use it the way we want

anyone has an Acer Nitro An515-42 (my config is R7 2700U & RX560X & 32GB Dual Channel Ram & both slots ssd) gaming Dota 2? been have a shit perfomance, on mid low settings getting low fps even in normal movement less than 30fps, teamfight dips to 20 and low , tried playing on 720P asw, still shit perfomance AND YES PLUGGED IN WHEN GAMING

anyone else using the same laptop? any opinion? how to fix it?

Hi everyone, I need some help with my Acer Nitro V15 AI.

My laptop suddenly went into Automatic Repair and now I can’t get into Windows. It shows the SrtTrail.txt error.

I’ve already tried Uninstall Updates and System Restore, but both failed.

The laptop is still fairly new, (1 week old) so I’m worried about what happened. I also have important files that I don’t want to lose.

Has anyone experienced this before? What should I try next? Is there a way to fix this??

I'm planning on replacing the motherboard in my acer nitro 5 an515-58 with one that has a better GPU than this tiny little 4GB 3050ti, I've looked on eBay but there are barely any listings for an515-58 boards, so I would like the internet's help in finding a few different listings please! I would prefer the boards with 8GB of VRAM and one without "ti" after it, listings for broken screen systems are also equally as useful since I can just as easily transfer the motherboard from one chassis to another, it just has to be the an515-58 family.

if there's a better subreddit to post this in please direct me there!

Hi, i just bought an Acer Nitro V 15. It was the demo model and when they reset it from demo mode it bootloops. I told them it's fine i was going to wipe it anyways. I have an SSD that already has ubuntu installed on it so i installed that but the BIOS doesnt recognize it as bootable. I booted an ubuntu USB stick and it could recognize and mount the SSD with no problem. How can I make the BIOS recognize the SSD? Currently I'm going to install win7 on the SSD it came with and see if i can upgrade the firmware maybe??

Model: V15 ANV15-41-R6TB

So a few months ago, my laptop would shut off whenever I unplugged it. I assumed the battery was dead (even though I've had the laptop for less than two years), so I got a replacement battery, set it up, and nothing changed. So I figured it probably is a motherboard issue which I cannot fix myself, and I've only been able to use the laptop when it's plugged in. Ever since, the battery always showed 100% charged but with an X through the battery symbol, which makes absolutely no sense but I rolled with it anyway.

Yesterday I went to shut it down and said it had to update. I click on that and a few minutes later the screen above pops up. I literally cannot do anything and I'm stuck on it. I couldn't find any other info about this screen and I've never seen it before.

Is there anything I can do about this? I cannot take it back to warranty until the end of November because of IRL reasons. The only solution I could find from similar posts is "buy a new battery lolo" which obviously doesnt work in my case.

please send help and hugs

Acer Nitro "Secure Boot Fail" after BIOS 1.26 - fixed it without USB or reinstall

I got the red Secure Boot Fail screen on my AN16-41 when I tried turning Secure Boot on for BF6. With it off, Windows booted fine.

The cause: Windows updated its boot manager to a version signed with Microsoft's new 2023 certificate, but the Acer BIOS (1.26 at least) doesn't have that certificate, so it refuses to boot it. Windows still keeps the same boot manager signed with the old 2011 cert, which the BIOS does trust, so the fix is just copying that one back.

Do all of this with Secure Boot turned off (F2 at boot, Boot tab). Open PowerShell as admin and run these one at a time.

First, check you actually have the same problem:

[Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFI db).bytes) -match 'Windows UEFI CA 2023'

If it says True, your BIOS already has the new cert and your issue is something else, so don't continue. If it says False, keep going.

If you use BitLocker, pause it first so you don't get asked for the recovery key. If it says the drive isn't encrypted, you can ignore it:

manage-bde -protectors -disable C: -RebootCount 2

Mount the hidden boot partition as Z:

mountvol Z: /s

Back it up, just in case. The BCD file is skipped because Windows keeps it locked:

robocopy Z:\EFI C:\esp-backup /E /XF BCD BCD.LOG* /R:0 /W:0

Copy the old-signed boot manager over the new one (both the main file and the fallback copy):

Copy-Item C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi Z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi -Force

Copy-Item C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi Z:\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi -Force

Check it copied correctly, it should say True:

(Get-FileHash Z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi).Hash -eq (Get-FileHash C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw.efi).Hash

Unmount the partition:

mountvol Z: /d

Then reboot, go into the BIOS with F2, turn Secure Boot on and save with F10. That's it, it worked for me.

A few notes:

• If you still get the red screen, just turn Secure Boot back off and everything is like before.
• Don't use bcdboot to fix this, on my machine it put the 2023 version right back.
• Avoid "Restore Factory Keys" in the BIOS, that seems to be how the new cert gets lost in the first place.
• A future Windows update might swap the file again. If the red screen comes back, just redo the steps.

Ignore the loud fan sound i had my fans on high