Man, was I screwed. I had this awesome laptop with a diy keyboard backlight and then it died on me just after the (already voided) warranty had expired and new mainboards were ~200€…It all started when I noticed that my ATI Radeon 5650M GPU had vanished in Windows, so I tried to reboot, enter theContinue reading “tl;dr – Reviving an Acer Aspire 3820 TG with a broken BIOS chip”
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Adding a “proper” keyboard backlight to an Acer Aspire 3820TG notebook
This thing started long ago when I got the laptop. I love it, but it really lacks a backlit keyboard. There was one excellent thread with people presenting solutions (add tiny switches, soldering to the bluetooth connector, to the USB breakout board etc.), but I found none of them really satisfying. I decided to voidContinue reading “Adding a “proper” keyboard backlight to an Acer Aspire 3820TG notebook”
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