Broken 2 in 1 LAPTOP - ACER Aspire Switch 10 - Trying to FIX 

Spoiler Saver Riddle Time What English word sounds the same, even if you take away 4 of its 5 letters?

i cant believe they made these 2gb 32gb emmc devices, producing fresh ewaste from the factory

Great work Vince!! Nice to see you out of your confort zone and still managing to learn and solve problems, you are a great example to follow for all of us and our kids

I'll choose my words carefully here, so I don't upset anyone 🙄 … I'll just say: thanks for the video, Vince! Really enjoyed this one! 😊👍

Taking the back off the screen part was white knuckling all the way. I was holding my breath for ages . Great work 💪

Great repair Vince. I've ran into several driver issues myself helping friends and family with their computers. I think this video really highlights how to resolve these things and I hope it helps others.

Thanks Vince, your persistence is very commendable and its very enjoyable to watch you work mate.

I love the dopamine rush and accomplishment that comes when fixing something I wasn't sure I could fix. 👍

Awesome job in getting this laptop-tablet to work. I am really impressed. I hope to see more videos.

I too thought that screen was going to crack! Great outcome Vince

Interesting little laptop there Vince! It's always fun to watch you work through a problem.

vince this is definitely a fix as a mechanic we deal with simple issues all the time like a radio that just needed to be updated to the latest firmware to make it work you still have to diag the problem trouble shoot it and then do the "repair" so that is what you did here you confirmed the complaint you trouble shooted it you found the problem and you corrected it thus it is a fix and i think you did a great job working on this

Really enjoying these laptop videos

Yet another top job Vince👍

Omg i was waiting for you to upload a trying to fix laptop video!

Keep up the good work fella and stay safe!

Hey, love your channel, mate Vince. :) Just a note, often computers break, and (more than) often the problem is 1. WiFi driver- 2. Realtek sound drivers, laptop keyboard drivers (too often actually, some group like the BSC or whomever should set a 'generic driver' standard or whatever, (I don''t know never had to join them yet)). These things can cause non-starts, BSOD, random freezes and the like, similar to bad RAM back in the day. Good catch! I know this through a lot of experience and you have came leaps and bounds from you're earlier videos. Well done.

You did a good job Vince,the times i get computers to fix because of updates that people expect to help their computers,it changes the drivers and makes some hardware useless ! (even had on mine) but capable of sorting !...most people don't have the ability to sort this,then they think it's dead or done,then buy a new one ! when there is nothing wrong with the one they had ! more landfill !

Good job Vince you did really well on that one. You made out good on it too.

I think i like the laptop vids. Keep it up Vince

Loving the laptop vids, your doing a great job:)

Lovely fix Vince.

Fantastic Vince!!!!!

*perfect for a Saturday night in, thanks Vince!*

Thanks for the video mate! Trying to fix mine today. I bought it from someone locally. I bought a third-party charger and I am trying to see if it turns on. If it does I now have a picture of the software issues that could come up. Keep up the good work.

When installing drivers manually, it's always a good idea to install the chipset ones first, as they sometimes, present other, 'software devices', that need to then be installed afterwards. Sound is generally a standalone driver, though, as is the graphics. Card readers, touch screen, etc. are usually associated with the mainboard, i.e. chipset drivers.

great fix. I would definitely recommend buying a set of different adapter plugs that you can hook up to your bench power supply.

Another great video vince thanks thumbs up

Well done you got more patience than me 👍

That was an excellent fix, well done.

Great win again !!! Thanks for great content !

Brilliant,well done that is a great fix.

Enjoyed this one vince! Have you considered trying mobile phone screen repairs etc? I think you would have fun

Hey buddy brilliant video keep them coming 👍😀👌

Great video! I experienced the same driver quite frequently with less popular laptops. My advice would be to buy a usb to ethernet dongle in case the Wi-Fi is not working, since usually windows 10 would actually install the necessary drivers automatically as soon as it has the internet connection.

Ofc its a fix, you got it working. That's what matters.

new trying to fix video! yay!

man i havent watched this guy in a while

What a big software mess but you did it. Very nice

Thats amazing that its a device from CEX in Sutton! That was my closest CEX for a while until I moved away!

Great work

That is interesting, i had the same Problems with my Asus EeeBook and it is the same Audio Treiber/Hardware. I Bought it that also as not working, to repair. Thanks for that video.

Really neat. The fact that the factory image comes without the proper drivers is really weird though. It should at least have a wifi driver so Windows can automatically download the rest of the drivers.

Enjoying these laptop repairs, I think a MacBook one would be interesting.

Quality!! I wish I could afford patreon for you fella 😔 Hopefully next month 👍👍 Regardless great video my friend 🔥🔥

Good job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Good job 👍🏼

Should do a Q&A would love to know what made you get into repairs and what was your very first repair...

Hello , to find and update a lot of drivers you can use SDI-tool , really usefull for this

These are common symptoms on these 2 in 1... Most people have issues re-installing drivers on these and some times they just dump them. Mines a simple one, 1gb ram, 16 internal, you wouldnt believe how quick the thing actually is on windows 8. Got it upgraded to 10, just like yours, and the thing was struggling even to open the start menu, and also had some of these issues. Simply rolling it back to windows 8 fixed it all and now I love the thing, been using it for a year by now.

I like that bench power supply - may I ask what type it is? Thanks for a very enjoyable and instructive vid mate, that was fun.

Nice riddle. People who watch Star Trek may get it :) It still counts as a fix Vince if you get something that doesnt work and bring it to a state where it is usable.

Another interesting video in your collection Vince. I’m sure this will some way help someone out. What was your final charging option for this machine? 👍🇬🇧

The battery may have battery protection circuit. These circuits have mosfets that cuts the battery neg terminal. The mosfets kick-in at over voltage and maybe under voltage conditions to prevent damage.

You need use plastic tools to separate screens. Otherwise you can land shorting elements or like you know cracking screen. Good job 👏

Get yourself few guitar picks/mediators different thickness, will be very easy to open-up things without making dents or visible damages.

That track you used at the end is kinda’ spiffy! 😃 What’s the name of it? Ps. Thanks for yet another interesting repair video! (Or “randomly faffing about, trying to repair a laptop by poking at it,” as one of my friends from Cornwall put it after watching it. 😄)

You can use sdi-tool to install drivers easliy from the internet. Its open source and i've been using it for years now. Never failed me. You just download the indexes and it finds every driver, downloads them and installs them. Its a life saver if you are repairing lots of computers like me!

It was a software fix Vince!...and if your clueless about drivers and such like me, they are the most frustrating ones! cheers Chris

Hi. Good Video. You can find the right Hardware by the Hardware ID under Properies in the device Manager. You can google the Hardware ID and find the right Hardware.

the fact he was recording this at like 10 pm is crazy, most adults are asleep by then

Another vince video epic at this rate you'll be working for ifix it before long 🙂

I had a sumsung tablet and it woundent turn on.. The fact that you removed the battery connection I Personally belive it was enough to reboot the sistem.... Wish you well excelente vídeo

Good score there!

@Mymatevince Love your style in your videos! Lol, I have the exact same problem with my Acer Switch 10 and wanted to download the drivers you used after watching your video. However, could not find any proper ones for my device. Could you please tell me which website you got those drivers! Thank you!

there is a under voltage protection in the Accumulator that switches of the Voltage if it get's to low normally and that is the reason why you can't measure anything in these cases. the best thing is always to measure at the Accu contacts directly if you can.

The one thing I still despise about windows... the drivers. Windows is good until it's not! Thank you for the tutorial Vince.

Am I the only one that when he fixes something, I say an audible hell yea Vince! LOL.

Great repair , Just wondering if the previous owner didn't use the right charger normal laptop charger are 19V exception to old Toshiba what were 15V and Lenovo is 20V but 19V should work anyways, nowadays you got to be more careful the previous laptop you worked on was 5v and now 12v and some of acers 2 in1 are 19v , so maybe he tried an 19v charger on the 2in1 and over voltage kicked in and stop the laptop from charging,👍👍👍👍👍👍

I still enjoy watching these videos. As a hobby, I used to fix laptops and radios in my spare time and then sell them on eBay. It's a shame that eBay has now stopped sellers using PayPal. They want you to give them your Bank account details - which seems awfully dodgy to me.

I suggest using a plastic card (like old credit card) to pry things open, it will not dent the plastic like a metal tool would.

Excellent

Excellent video =D Yes, it is a fix =D

looked a really nice laptop/tablet nice price too :)

Nice job :)

Asus made a similar tablet. I did a repair and reformat on it and I also had the same exact issues with the drivers. I'm surprised windows doesn't automatically install the drivers for these devices especially with how hard it is to find its drivers.

Nice Work :-)

Most of the modern internet uses SSL, which is time and date sensitive. If the local time is way before or past the SSL cert's valid before date/expiration date, then you get an error. Windows does use internet time servers to keep their times correct, however, if the local time is drastically different from that of the NTP (time) server, then it won't update (there would probably be a log entry in Event Viewer about this). So by manually adjusting the time, everything starts working again as normal. So if you ever have another computer that you fix, I suggest that the first thing you should do once you get it up and running is to check that the date and time is correct. Will save you from dealing with odd issues that you would not normally suspect are date/time related.

It was worth the hassle because it really nice now it’s working

The manufacturer normally has its drivers on his homepage, so you could try downloading and installing them. In some cases the devices only show up in device manager if you installed the drivers first. Also you should always use the setup.exe that is delivered with the driver. It also installs extra stuf that the driver sometimes need to function correctly.

Well done vince i find more and more faulty things are caused by firmware and sft ware

good brother

Glad to see that all it was - was driver issues, Bear in mind that Microsoft probably put out an update that killed those drivers as the latest update did do some damage to peoples system. which is probably why it was up for sale in the first place as they didn't know how to download and install those drivers externally via USB. how did you resolve the charging up the battery issue if it didn't come with a charger?

Usually you can boot these 2-in-1 devices to a BIOS and install Windows directly from MS using a USB. Google for the method, it varies. You can avoid bundled crapware this way as well some reliability issues that arise from resetting or repairing Windows installations.

I just tried to repair my gaming laptop because a few of the keys weren't working... now the LEDs don't light up and the screen is totally dead. I think I'll just stick to watching your videos in future haha.

Please use plastic pry tools when you can.

I have a similar Acer Atom piece of crap that came with Windows 7, and pushed it up to Win10. I had to go through the same exact driver marathon that you had to go through. WiFi, audio and all - although the touchscreen worked by default at least.

Nice this good video

You just reminded me that I have one of these in my closet. Pulled it out and charged it up and updated. Now no sound. Can you help provide me with the correct audio drivers. Thanks

U should definitely get yourself a set of universal DC jacks off Aliexpress if you're doing this sort of thing with any regularity (which you appear to do) - saves the trouble of not having the right adapter, since you can just connect it up to your power supply.

Ahh reminds me of the days I used to work in IT. Nice video, but did you sort the charging issue out? :-D

I have one of these acers and I was wondering if you could tell me what the pinhole is on the righthand side of the volume buttons

vince whenever you have driver inssues use "IO BIT driver booster" software it will fix all your driers and keep you updated im using it professionaly no need to look to each vendor website individualy to get drivers for each machine

good to see all these items up and running again, but what do you do with them once fixed ?? do you put them back on Ebay ? stay Safe richie

Here in the US, I can get a bag of every laptop charger bit ever made for $13, and then you use a standard 5.5x2.5 charger which are super common. also SDI Origin is good for getting basic drivers installed, you download a massive pack of drivers and let it get basic drivers. if you just are having no luck with drivers, SDIO should let you try out more generic drivers.

You need to buy Ifixit mac kit with plastic spatula, perfect for this kind of device.

Hello, do you have a video of how you put in the SSD? Thanks.

Good work Vince you are doing really good in your learning to repairs and your videos are always great to watch So it seems the only issue really was charging and drivers I bet people who had it before you may be kicking themselves thinking should have left it to charge for at least an hour Have came across many devices on my bench usually mobile phones people saying they don't charge but turns out they have been left for a while maybe because original charger died and they didn't give a new charger time to get the battery going again but usually after 30 mins or so they come back to life and an hour later good enough to fire up As for the keyboard on your device did you ever get the chance to see if it takes an hard disk I know some of them do I had a tablet / laptop combo I got in 2016 had a 500GB hard disk in the keyboard base they are a bit of a battery drain but was very handy on trips out

also there are hidden device. there might be more drivers that you don't see at first look. And if you can't find the correct driver; for one that isn't working propperly,... there is a number on the hardware page. i believe you have to choose this option in a drop down. but the hardware id should be somewhere in there. and if you look this up. you could perhaps find the correct name of it. and potentially install the driver this way

Once the battery is flat the BMS on these won't permit a charge. You can charge these with a bench supply. Just have to be careful. Constant current initially, then a long slow constant voltage never exceeding the cell max. Once it's above the low voltage cutoff, the regular charge circuitry will take over for you.