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    Acer Aspire 5315 Died...please help!!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by uber_ckt, May 8, 2009.

  1. uber_ckt

    uber_ckt Newbie

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    Hi there, I was wondering if anybody out there might be able to shed some light on this problem i've been having.

    I've got an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop and it's pretty much died on me. There appears to be two problems.

    1. It periodically hangs on booting up (sometimes at POST, sometimes before OS startup) and beeps endlessly, dont know what POST code that is...

    2. An XP file got corrupted and I started doing a repair install but XP (cd boot) seems to have trouble recognizing the hard drive. When I switched the SATA mode in the BIOS from AHCI to IDE it worked and I was able to start the repair install, but once again it won't load up from the hard drive to complete the installation. I've tried last good config, normal, and safe mode and changed the SATA mode back and forth...no dice.

    So yeah im pretty frustrated by this and I'd rather not to have to junk the hard drive or the laptop if I could avoid it because there are some files i want to get off there...any suggestions?

    Thanks!
     
    uber_ckt, May 8, 2009
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  2. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    have you tried a factory restore? Alt+F10
     
    hoggie, May 8, 2009
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  3. uber_ckt

    uber_ckt Newbie

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    I installed XP, replaced Vista and I didn't implement an E-recovery partition :(
     
    uber_ckt, May 8, 2009
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  4. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    I can only guess , that you need the SATA controller driver , prior the installation of windows XP , and because you do not own a USB Floppy so to supply it , when windows needs disk controller drivers , your installation hangs.


    If this is all about , now you know what you need !!
     
    kiriakost, May 8, 2009
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