Desktops & All-In-Ones

[rgmuk]

Right! I have requested a set of disks so we will see how long it takes for detail of how to buy them!

Regards

[flyboy]

The other option is to download windows 7 86 or 64 and do a clean instal. But before make shure that you download the driver form acer driver from acer and to do a back up with Windows easy transfer (WET). if you don't have WET on your PC you can get form Microsoft. Also make shure you have Windows Reg. Keys you should find on the ouside. 

Here the link for a leagal copy of windows download and burn it to a cd.

if you don't know what you are doing DON'T

[flyboy]

http://www.aramblinggeek.com/windows-office-digital-river-links/

[rgmuk]

Well after three phone calls FROM the Acer team and shelling out a small fortune I now have a set of discs winging their way to me!

They may be here Friday ! The next job will be rebuilding the thing before we think about fixing the original problem - which is hopefully going to be a BIOS issue?

What's the chances!!

[flyboy]

i have an Acer with amd cpu to fix a similar problem i just took out the fan and and pass the vaccum in the fins then wipe the fan i clean it with a damp cloth. the compresse personaly is just a waist of money.

for the bios did you try to see if you had an update

but i belive that you have some kind of virus,pup,trojen..... or one of the other 

just format it's not that hard check video on youtube 

[rgmuk]

Well the new disks have arrived and guess what!

Yes the erecovrry stops at exactly the same point as the recovery disk I had made!

The computer goes into recovery and hangs at the wait a moment screen just as before ,!

There must be a way to get round this?

Any clues?

[laurent_14]

Hello rgmuk,

The erecovery doesn't work because you have a hardware or bios issue.

Firstly, make a clear cmos with the jumper. If the fan speed decrease, this is a good sign!

Secondly, you could flashing the bios only under Dos (Aspire M3802 - Bios P01.A1) like this:

To flash the bios with MS-DOS:

1- Make a MS-DOS Bootable USB Flash Drive (see note) with FlashBoot (Demo) or HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

2- Download the bios file.zip and unzipped it.

3- Copy all files contained in the DosTool folder (from AFUDOS.EXE to Y.txt) and the ROM folder on the USB flash drive.

4- Boot on the USB flash drive (see the note).

5- When you are on MS-DOS, type the command FLASH1M.BAT

6- If it's flashing successfully, reboot your system (normally, it reboot automatically).

7- Enter on the bios setup utility, "Load optimazed defaults" or "Load default settings".

--- If you have a doubt, do not hesitate to ask me questions ---

Note:

Flashboot: Map to A: selected --> you'll see it like a FDD or USB FDD

               Map to C: selected --> You'll see it like a HDD or USB HDD

HP: By default, Letter C --> you'll see it like a HDD or USB HDD