Last year I had opened this case on the forum. I had
received several suggestions, some from Billsey. I had been through several
attempts trying to fix the problem without any luck. The last proposal was to
buy a Nvme.SSD in order to bypass the one on the motherboard. I had turned down
the suggestion because I was not convinced that it would resolve the issue and
I was not willing to throw away dollars for something I did not feel to be the
right thing to do.
My last comment (Nov 2021) on the case was to
consider the unit as being dead. Consequently, I had put the unit aside with
the idea of eventually sending it to a recycling company.
Recently, I have found the unit somewhere in my
basement and I thought that I would give it a last try and it worked. I want
now to share my approach with the community even though my thread has been
flushed. Here are all the steps I have been through to bring back to life my
laptop.
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I have disabled the lid open resume option
from the BIOS
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I have downloaded the most recent ISO version of
Windows 10 from Microsoft and saved it to a USB key
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I have erased all partitions from the internal
disk using the bootable USB key containing the ISO
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I have installed Windows 10
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While configuring Windows 10 I told Windows
that I was not connected to internet
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Using another computer, I went to the Acer
Support site to download almost all drivers for my model and saved them to a
USB key. One of them was older than what was installed by Windows
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I also went to the Intel site to download the
Driver Assistant
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Back to my laptop, I went through the
installation of each driver on my USB key
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Before installing the Intel Driver Assistant,
I configured the laptop for access to internet
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I have installed the Intel Driver Assistant
and proceeded with the suggested updates ignoring the one for the video card
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Once all of this was done, I let Windows update
the operating system
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The laptop is now alive and running like it
used to be over a year ago
Here is another happy ending.
