repair Acer Aspire TC-780 - SSD Upgrade

15:42 SSD installation

This video helped me ease me into computer building 5 years ago thanks!!

Great Video! I've got the Acer aspire TC-885-UA91, 500GB HDD. Would this upgrade work on my PC? I know the HDD will die someday and would like to migrate to SSD. Thanks

Great tutorial video. Would a Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA M.2 (2280SS) Internal SSD work as well? Thanks

Hi, crucial MX300 is discontinued. Is there any other SSD you will recommend for this desktop?

So far, this is the best how-to video for any device I've EVER seen on YouTube... or anywhere else. Thank-you!

I'm going to make the machine dual-boot for LInux, so I'll probably "need" a 512gB or so SSD. Should be an adventure, though I have experience doing the same with my current Mac Mini, to which I added a 2nd HDD... THAT was a challenge! At least I have a good set of tiny Phillips - and - Torx drivers due to working on the Mac(s - I have 3, 2 as entertainment PCs).

I was going to build a PC from scratch, but it look slike i'd save time and money starting with the Acer... one might even come WITH an SSD, so I could buy a HDD just for data and save the cloning/booting/messing-with-Microsoft stuff.

Thanks again for doing this as thoroughly as you did.

Hi I have an Acer aspire T desktop i7. I want to buy Topaz AI to upscale old 480p videos. I want to know what is the best graphics card I can put in here, from watching your videos I think I will have to change the power supply if I go with a card higher than an EVGA 1050ti. Please let me know if I should go with the more expensive graphics card or if I should just use the EVGA 1050 ti. Thanks so much 🙏

Useful video thanks but my Acer T3-710 already has an M.2 128GB SSD 'C' drive + a 1TB HDD 'E' drive. You pointed out the difficulty of cloning from an existing HDD to the M.2 SSD but is it easy to clone from my existing M.2 SSD on to a bigger M.2? Even though I utilise the 'E' drive wherever possible, I periodically have to delete stuff from the 'C' drive to keep the PC working. I therefore I want to install a bigger 'C' drive and I would much prefer not to have to reinstall everything.

If i install a m.2 ssd I only want to use it to install my games and run my games....can I do that? just format it and when I down load a new game install to the new ssd drive?
Please advise

Great video, thank you!!!

Will this upgarde work with the A10 chip TC-281-EB11?

Can I buy the crucial mx500 ssd?

Thought it would be dry , I’m wrong very exacting and descriptive , still . This cabinet has been around for a bit and well made for the $$$

What an excellent video. It answered a lot of the questions I had about this computer. I built my previous computer in 2006, I finally replaced it with the Acer is 2018. I have been upgrading some of the families laptops with RAM and SSDs and I am considering upgrading my system. I haven't looked around inside of this one at all yet and the online manual is garbage. This video answered every question I have. Thanks!

I have a Acer Aspire TC-230 and a AMD A6 7310 Apu but I decided to put a GeForce GTX 1650 Lowprofile inside the case (barely fit) it works fine but when I try to run a game the GPU will randomly crash locking my keyboard and mouse out with a blank screen (still connected to the graphics card because the monitor is connecting) everything is showing as a white hyphen in the top left middle mocks me. I have to directly remove power from the PSU to restart and turn on my PC again, thing is it only does this on slightly heavy loads such as graphics changes and resolution changes this happens in at least 5-10 minutes of gameplay or when a high amount of particles appear on the screen (lots for the CPU to load) it just crashes. I know I need a Apu upgrade but as far as I know I don't wanna buy a Ryzen 5 2600 and then it not fit any suggestions?

Can i use this instructions also on my ACER XC-710 ?

7:25 , do you have to switch the power cables or just the data cables, and do i have to wipe the HDD after? if so its fin but i do have a TB of games on there

Absolutely perfect. Soooo many thanks! Soooo pleased!!

Amazing video, just what I needed. I just found out about SSD the other day. Got mine on order 👍