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    Acer Aspire 5630 problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by theINSKIP, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. theINSKIP

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    Hi this is my first post here, so any help will be greatly received...

    My friend has brought the above laptop round with the hope of me fixing it.

    Problem started when he tried to restore the system using the 'ALT+F10' method.

    This failed now on every boot up the system tries to restore itself but gets caught up with this error

    'File pci.sys caused an unexpected error (4139) at line 6514 in d:\srvrtm\base\booot\setup\setup.c.'



    This then asked you to press a key, then it tells you to press a key to reset.


    Ive tried throwing in a vista install disc to see if it will bypass that and freshly install vista BUT it won't.

    Ive tried going into the bios setup BUT he doesn't know the password, and the idiot has no recovery discs of his own.

    Does anyone have any ideas ??

    Also after some googling ive seen something called a jumper ?? Is that a internal reset button ??

    **UPDATE**

    Does anyone know the 'backdoor bios password' for this system ?? it runs on phoenix if that helps ??

    Thanks
     
    theINSKIP, Jan 12, 2009
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