Hi. I am running an Acer Aspire with Win8 already loaded when I bought it. What worries me is that I can't find the full Windows product key...
OK, resolved. It has nothing to do with the BIOS version. It is this new UEFI bios that Acer is installing on their machines. They have an...
Only the regular Windows updates, and no new software. As I said, I'm pretty sure this is a hardware or a BIOS problem, as the anomalies start...
Hi Neil, Steve, and thanks for input. Neil: do I assume "SF" = system files? There's no SFC for W8, but all diagnostic options W8 does have...
Hi. While trying to run Windows Defender Offline I discovered that my Acer MC605 won't boot from a CD-ROM. Checked with 2 different bootable...
Hi, Tony, and many thanks for that. It wasn't quite that simple, but you pointed me in the right direction and by tweaking some settings I'm now...
I recently bought a new PC (Windows 8) and decided it was time to clean up the old (XP Home SP3) machine, so I reformatted one of its 2 HDs and...
That's helpful, Tony - thanks again.
Yes! It was indeeed the USB legacy support - many thanks, Tony. Spin-off advantage: I can now plug the drive semi-permanently into a USB socket...
Hi Tony - thanks for advice. I thought I had the boot order set right (1: HD; 2: CD-ROM; no others), but I printed your post off and checked it...
Hi LJ and thanks. Yes, I tried all available USB ports. No, no way I would want to uninstall and reinstall it - too much archive material and...
Hi Steve and thanks for swift reply. No, it's not hard wired, so I guess I'll just have to live with the inconvenience, unless someone comes up...
Hi. I have a brand new Acer Aspire with Windows 8 installed. Every time I booted up, after about 1 or 2 seconds it repeated the beep and booted...
For the record (and for anyone whose search pulls up this thread), Arie was right. My local tech service found a faulty graphics card and...
Yeah, I take your point about "parroting "! I've also seen some weird advice over the years, but this one did seem convincing at first glance....
I'm surprised. I've read on many reputable sites that unneeded services are resource hoggers, and it made sense to me to disable services like...
And again, and again. I can now keep the machine "alive" for about an hour at a time (right in the middle of a lengthy translation promised for...
Lightning struck again late last night, when I was just about to sign off and go to bed. I was too tired to do anything more, so I left it to...
As I wrote ;) : I've checked that error reporting is is enabled. That the folder C:\Windows\Minidump is there (but empty), \Memdump is not...
Hi Arie and thanks for reply. I followed your instructions step by step up to here: Locate and select cdb.exe (by default in C:\Program...
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