When I bought my acer aspire 2930 (great computer by the way), touchpad went dead after two weeks of usage, for no reasons.
It did not work on windows, neither on linux and driver updates did not change anything.
At first I thought it was simply dead (broken connector or something) and I believed it during 6 months, until I recently flashed my bios (for another reason) with latest available version (1.1 to 1.7) and miraculously it worked again!
=> if you have an acer aspire 2930 with a dead touchpad, try flashing your bios!
updated to bios ver 1.17. still same problem. touch pad doesnt work. the laptop has been replaced. even the replacement has developed the same problem
I have an Acer Aspire 2930. I was having a strange problem where the CPU would go to 100% when the lid was closed and stay at 100% until the lid opened. This was under Wnidows XP, Vista, and 7. I downloaded the above BIOS and it took me from 1.0 to 1.17. Now the problem is gone! So thanks for helping me with this. Touch pad is OK so far, but if it fails I’ll just get a bluetooth mouse.