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Re: Acer Aspire Z5600 Overheats then shuts off

realtrickydicky — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:21:34 GMT

You need to get it looked at, if the fan is shutting down you run a major risk of burning out your CPU.

Re: How do I reinstall Vista on Aspire T180 without discs or password?

realtrickydicky — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:41:38 GMT

1 quick question, did you try to manually install SP1 or did you let windows update do it

Re: How do I reinstall Vista on Aspire T180 without discs or password?

realtrickydicky — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:07:07 GMT

Unfortunately the only thing you can do now is reload the computer with another disc, you can probably contact acer with your computer serial number with who purchased it and when, they may issue you a new recovery disc, probably at a price. The thing is that the password is there to protect you, if they just gave a new recovery disc to anybody, computer thefts would multiply out off all proportion. Sorry can't be any further help on this. Good luck

Re: How do I reinstall Vista on Aspire T180 without discs or password?

realtrickydicky — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:09:22 GMT

Dont know if this will work but you can reboot your comp, when you see the acer sign hold alt and keep pressing f10 until screen changes. You may still require a password, I'm not sure. Please come back to me, if fails will try to find a solution for you

Re: how to reset keyboard settings

realtrickydicky — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:38:54 GMT

How very frustrating, dont think I've seen this problem before, but never mind, will see if we can fix it.

Go to control panel, click on keyboard, select hardware tab, this will tell you if the hardware is running properly. If ok go back to control panel. open hardware and sound, select device manager, if prompted press continue. Look for keyboard on list and click on the + sign next to it. Double click the file that lists your keyboard, does it say the device is working properly. Click on the driver tab and select uninstall, after this your keyboard will stop working totally, restart computer, when on your computer will find the keyboard and reinstall it. See if this sorts out your problem.

Re: I have an Acer Aspire , my fan is full speed, this new.

realtrickydicky — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:14:38 GMT

I take it you mean your fan is constantly running at full speed and that this is a new problem?

If so sounds like you need to open your computer, and clean it, pay particular attention to the slots behind the fan, try this and see what happens, also make sure your vents on the outside of the comp are clean, they soon get blocked, particularly if you have pets

Re: System disk Windows XP

realtrickydicky — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:16:46 GMT

Have you tried holding alt button and pressing F10 repeatedly to try and reset to factory condition

Re: PC to TV connection

realtrickydicky — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:12:08 GMT

I bought a gadmei xga tv box from play.com, this allows you to connect ps, computers etc to a tv monitor

Re: restoring from back up discs has proved impossible

realtrickydicky — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:03:36 GMT

Need more info, what system are you using, what exactly is it that your trying to do

Re: How can you do a repair to vista when Acer do not supply installation CD and only and image

realtrickydicky — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:09:32 GMT

Glad to hear it, for future reference, I had a similar problem where my system was corrupted and my cdrom had stopped working, so I couldn't use my recovery discs. Fortunately I had backed up my system and so was able to use hold alt button and keep pressing F10 which takes you to system restore and gives you the option of resetting to factory conditions or resetting from back up which keeps all your files. Might be useful to know if you have any further problems

So pleased you got sorted

Re: How can you do a repair to vista when Acer do not supply installation CD and only and image

realtrickydicky — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:32:03 GMT

Ah well looks as though I hit Kudos instead of reply, lol.

Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.

Right-click the hard disk drive that you want to check, and then click Properties.
Click the Tools tab, and then, under Error-checking, click Check Now. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
To automatically repair problems with files and folders that the scan detects, select Automatically fix file system errors. Otherwise, the disk check will simply report problems but not fix them.
To perform a thorough disk check, select Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. This scan attempts to find and repair physical errors on the hard disk itself, and it can take much longer to complete.
To check for both file errors and physical errors, select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.
If this not worked, you could try the system filechecker stool
- Click Start and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
- Right-click cmd in the Programs list, and then click Run as administrator.
  If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password or click Continue
- At the command prompt, type sfc /scannow and then press ENTER:
  Good luck

Re: How can you do a repair to vista when Acre do not supply installation CD and only and image

realtrickydicky — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:52:29 GMT

Do you want to do a reboot to factory conditions or reload drives and applications. Go to computer, program files, Acer, empowering technology, e-recovery, eRecoveryUI then select what you want from menu. Alternatively do a system restore. Hope this helps

Re: Reloading your Acer computer

realtrickydicky — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:07:19 GMT

What exactly comes on when you start your computer, does it come up with the acer logo, is the computer itself an acer. If the place you bought it from did a clean boot using another cd, this effectively wiped out all acer back up info. Have you tried restarting computer and holding alt button and pressing f10 repeatedly.

Re: How can I delete everything on my Acer Aspire E1-531?

realtrickydicky — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:36:40 GMT

Reset to factory conditions

Re: How do I reinstall Vista on Aspire T180 without discs or password?

realtrickydicky — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:32:10 GMT

Hi, Yes you can reinstall vista without discs, you would lose everything, as it resets back to factory condition. but you can then udate to present time. Save everything you want to keep on discs prior to doing this. If you still got e-recovery on board, use this, if you cant find it, go to computer, programme files, Acer and you should find e-recovery there

Re: where can i get dounload for sound driver for acer aspire ie3925

realtrickydicky — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:19:46 GMT

Go to task manager, find hardware you need driver for, open cascade, double click on driver, press driver tab and select update. Try this and see what happens

Re: upgraded vista to win 8

realtrickydicky — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:56:46 GMT

Was very fortunate, when I upgraded I purchased access key and downloaded windows 8. In doing so it does not erase your whole disc, it keeps your former settings in a file. When I went through program files I found Acers e-recovery. Activated it and now I have Vista back on my rig, phew, and the DVD driver is working again

Re: I am having problems with my drivers .it say's I have 14 drivers out of date,

realtrickydicky — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:48:10 GMT

How do you you know they're out of date, did you maybe go on a website that told you they were out of date in order to buy their product. Drivers very rarely go out of date, they are usually updated. If you go to task manager, click on the hardware that you think the drivers may be out of date, open cascade and double click on a driver which opens a new box, that will tell you if your driver is workin correctly, if you want to check if there is a newer version, then click the driver tab and select upgrade driver. Do this for all the drivers that you think are out of date, Windows update will then keep them all up to date, good luck.

Re: factory resoration is not working of Acer Aspire 4755G

realtrickydicky — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:27:23 GMT

Did you try to restore using discs or default button i.e F10, if you did try using e-recovery, this may sort out your problem

Upgrading to windows 8

realtrickydicky — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:23:42 GMT

If you are thinking of upgrading an older machine to windows 8, can I suggest that if you do, buy the access key and download it. I upgraded vista to windows 8 and frankly had quite a few problems, eventually accepting that vista was a lot better than windows 8 on my current set up. Had I bought a disc it would have apparently wiped the whole disc making it nearly impossible to revert back to vista. Because I downloaded windows 8, in the program files I found Acer e-recovery and was able to reset my comp back to factory conditions. Hope this helps