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    Acer 3810TG-944G50n - Made a complete mess!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by sb123, Jan 15, 2011.

  1. sb123

    sb123 Notebook Consultant

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    Having a bit of a nightmare with my brand new 3810TG-944G50n.

    1) Whenever I try and open OC_RTM875T_250.exe (overclocking tool on 1st page) - my laptop just completely powers off and restarts. Anyone had similar issues?

    2) I tried to perform a clean install, but obviously this drive doesn't have a CD/DVD Drive, so I created a partition and copied the installation files onto it and tried to make it bootable. To cut a long story short, this completely messed up the boot manager etc, and I've had to delete all partitions inc the recovery ones and create two new ones.

    3) After that happened, some partition managers still report issues with the partitions. Also Grub4Dos USB was the only way to boot into the newly installed Windows, as without the USB present it said no bootable device. I fixed this with EasyBCD.

    4) Also, when I single click on .exe files on the toolbar the icon next to open shows the 'missing image' logo

    Just wondered if anybody could help?
     
    sb123, Jan 15, 2011
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  2. Damarious25

    Damarious25 Notebook Consultant

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    yup. you've gone and made a mess of it. lesson learned though lol. i've been there. anyone know if acer send recovery disks on request?!
     
    Damarious25, Jan 15, 2011
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  3. michael_recycled

    michael_recycled Notebook Deity

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    michael_recycled, Jan 15, 2011
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  4. RefCache

    RefCache Newbie

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    I'd recommend backing up any data on the drive in the 3810TG, wipe any and all partitions off, and then simply start over from scratch. As Damarious25 states, "lesson learned".

    Spending much effort attempting to fix and patch what may be broken is likely to be more time consuming and error prone than starting again and doing it the correct way the first second time around. :)

    As a replacement for step 2) above I'd really suggest the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool assuming you have access to another working computer and a flash drive.
     
    RefCache, Jan 16, 2011
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  5. prikolchik

    prikolchik Notebook Evangelist

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    Maybe you should just ask someone to upload the drivers that came with OEM install? :D

    Don't ask me as I've already formatted my HDD.
     
    prikolchik, Jan 16, 2011
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