My friends Acer 5610 laptop, WinXP, stopped working. It goes to the first loading screen and then a new screen that never was there before shows up. It says stuff about the media failing, and then it says "OS cannot be found". Any ideas??? I don't know what to say, as I dont use laptops, but ask and I will answer. Would it be possible to use a regular WinXP boot disk to salvage it? Just enough to use command prompt, cos there is a recovery partition on it. Please help!!
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Acer ASpire 5610 failure
Started by beatlebryce, Sep 21 2007 06:47 AM
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Posted 21 September 2007 - 06:47 AM
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Posted 21 September 2007 - 01:30 PM
It is possible that his hard drive is failing. You should be able to get to the recovery partition on it when you boot - by pressing F10 or something similar. Go ahead and see if you can find it.
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Posted 27 September 2007 - 05:48 PM
some thing similar happened to my acer - turned out to be a faulty so-dimm RAM module
turned out to be 128mb down with only 512 to start with .. kept getting a slightly confusing 'hardware error' notice on the secreen
turned out to be 128mb down with only 512 to start with .. kept getting a slightly confusing 'hardware error' notice on the secreen
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Posted 28 September 2007 - 02:42 AM
On the Acer, press ALT and F10 while the Acer Logo is on. This happens almost immediately after pressed buttons to start.
Believe there are other options in F8.
I have an Acer 5610Z with Vista and those items above apply.
Believe there are other options in F8.
I have an Acer 5610Z with Vista and those items above apply.
Mudd
