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    5100-3357 is 10-7!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by floatrlc, Apr 3, 2009.

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    Hi all,

    My ex-girlfriends acer 5100-3357 went kaput!

    after a multitude of symptoms, I read about pressing ALT+F10 at the BIOS stage--well, all that does now is make the computer try to load winXP. ? It's a vista platform. it'll sit there and feign loading XP, time out, show a blue screen, and it's back to square one.

    anybody know which ALT or F- buttons will help? or anything else, other than throwing it in the trash?

    Thanks for any help!
     
    floatrlc, Apr 3, 2009
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    does anyone know about this problem?
     
    floatrlc, Apr 4, 2009
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    bump, bump
     
    floatrlc, Apr 5, 2009
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    bumpin it up
     
    floatrlc, Apr 5, 2009
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    Sounds like you need to do a full restore. Doing this, you will lose everything that was on the laptop. Do you have the restore disks? When you started the laptop the first time it should have asked you to make them. Other then that I don't know what else you can do.
     
    Halac0ax, Apr 5, 2009
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