What the hell happened!? Help for novice required

medhed84 · 17-09-2006, 10:30 PM

Hi

Have an ACER 1360 notebook. Needed to restore to original state as Ive sold it. Went into setup, set to boot from cd rom. System disk booted up fine asked for recovery disk, put it in, started to work fine, erasing the drive and restoring partition. Took my eyes off the computer turned back and it had cut out or something. Restarted but wouldnt boot from system disk or recovery, when I enter setup it freezes, the setup screen freezes! what do I do. I'm a relative novice with computers. Its already started to wipe the drive so cannot go any further than a blank screen with the flashing dash in the top left hand corner. Any experienced guys know whats going on and how to get it back on track.

Cheers guys

sabashuali · 19-09-2006, 06:18 PM

Try and go into your BIOS and see if there is an option to restore defaults.
If not, and you know how to do so, remove the laptop battery and the CMOS battery and wait for a while. Put both batteries back in and start again.
Go into BIOS and chose to boot from CD-ROM.
Try to boot again into the recovery disk.

Karanislove · 19-09-2006, 10:18 PM

It seems more like a memory problem to me. To check your memory status, run Memory Test 86+ and see if you come across any error.

17-09-2006, 10:30 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
medhed84 Geek Trainee Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1 Status: Offline	What the hell happened!? Help for novice required Hi Have an ACER 1360 notebook. Needed to restore to original state as Ive sold it. Went into setup, set to boot from cd rom. System disk booted up fine asked for recovery disk, put it in, started to work fine, erasing the drive and restoring partition. Took my eyes off the computer turned back and it had cut out or something. Restarted but wouldnt boot from system disk or recovery, when I enter setup it freezes, the setup screen freezes! what do I do. I'm a relative novice with computers. Its already started to wipe the drive so cannot go any further than a blank screen with the flashing dash in the top left hand corner. Any experienced guys know whats going on and how to get it back on track. Cheers guys

19-09-2006, 06:18 PM	#2 (permalink) Top
sabashuali Ani Ma'amin Join Date: May 2005 Age: 41 Male Posts: 1,451 Times Helpful: 71 My Mood: Grumpy Status: Online My Computer	Try and go into your BIOS and see if there is an option to restore defaults. If not, and you know how to do so, remove the laptop battery and the CMOS battery and wait for a while. Put both batteries back in and start again. Go into BIOS and chose to boot from CD-ROM. Try to boot again into the recovery disk. __________________ This is not a PC friendly user!!! "...when you find someone you really love, all the rest is just... other stuff." - *Leanne Anika Battersby* Help with digital video? Help My Mini City to grow Hit or Miss

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Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 23 Male Posts: 3,460 Times Helpful: 160 My Mood: Cool Status: Offline My Computer	It seems more like a memory problem to me. To check your memory status, run Memory Test 86+ and see if you come across any error. __________________ __________________________________________________ ___ Troubleshoot a Dead/Unbootable PC / Microsoft Events Viewer Troubleshoot Printer / Most Common Home Audio Problems_

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