realtrickydicky New User

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

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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

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.

Reset to factory conditions

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…

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 

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

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…

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

No intention of going back to windows 8 with this rig, but still need to reset back to vista