8930g How do I restore from pq partition without erecovery

Hi all

I have an acer 8930g that has been having battery issues after fresh vista install device manager recognises the battery as acpi compliant and the battery has been tested an found to be in good order (by a local laptop shop)
but vista fails to recognise it i have done all the usual including updateing drivers, vista sp, epower software i am running the latest bios and still no luck any help with this would be much appricated as i contacted acer and they are saying it is a software problem i have reinstalled vista 3 times to see if it had just missed the file but nothing i noticed that i still have the pq service partion on the drive but erecovery will not install is there any other way to use this partion to restore to factory default i can not use the ctrl-alt-f10 route as it doesnt want to work even with d2d switched on in bios please any help would be great cheers

dave

 

sos didnt explain very well the battery only functions for about 2 mins in windows yet the local shop put it in one of there customers machines and it lasted nearly 4 hours somtimes the little orange charging light flashes for about half hour but vista still says no batt installed if possible would like to somehow use pq service partion to restore to factory but as yet have been unable to do so.

 

If this issue just started after a fresh install chances are good that it is software
Have you any unknown devices in the device manager



Alex

 

HEYA

no everything is present and checked for against the same machine its driving me mental ive aready reinstalled vista 3 times useing 2 differnt discs and it still not working

ps cheers for replying

 

Will the battery charge at all in windows

Will the battery charging indicator on the laptop indicate that the battery is charging when windows is shut down and the laptop is plugged into the charger

If it will only run for a few minutes on battery then it shuts down in windows try starting up and boot to bios only on battery only and see how long it will run that way

It's hard to beleve that you need special drivers in windows ,just to allow the battery to charge


Alex

 

have tried this lol the machine will just shut off after about 2-3 mins in windows but will sit in bios without being plugged in for hours.

sometimes the battery light on the front of the laptop flashes to say that it is charging but still dosnt show up in vista

 

OK software confirmed for sure then

I just don't know your laptop well enough , but in every case of fresh load in any of mine ,windows did not need special drivers to be able to charge the battery properly , only to display battery condition on the screen using hotkeys






Alex

 

ok

i have downloaded cpu/z to see if it shows up in its system informer but it says there is no information on this system resorce this is doing my nut in lol is there any way to get the erecovery software to function again and revert back to factory using pq partition?

cheers

 

I don't have a clue on pq partition as I have always loaded O/S directly from a disk

If I understand what you are saying right ,you want to try to restore your laptop from a recovery partition located on you hard drive

Do you want me to change your thread title again to something different



Alex

 

err ok if that is what it will take i was hopeing that i wouldnt have to restore to factory but it looks like it may be the only way to sort the problem i was hopeing some1 may have had a quick fix lol

cheers
dave

 

Hi,

after a fresh Vista install, have you installed all drivers for your hardware and also all patches and Service Packs offered by Windows Update?
Were there any problem indicators in Device Manager?

Michael

 

heya

yes all drivers and software got from acer site windows is fully upto date and device manager says there is a method compliant acpi battery insalled any ideas ?

cheers

 

Hm,

you can try this:

1. Install Battery Bar and see what it reports for your battery.
2. What happens if you start Windows in Safe Mode?
3. Uninstall Acer ePower stuff
4. Shutdown your computer, remove the battery, disconnect the power cord and press the power button for ~15 seconds. Then install the battery again, plug in the power cord and restart normally.

Not sure if any of these helps, but it is worth trying.

Michael