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    Aspire 3680 Recovery & Keyboard

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by pandamonium54, Aug 27, 2007.

  1. pandamonium54

    pandamonium54 Newbie

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    eRecovery:
    I picked up an Acer 3680 at Circuit City and uninstalled everything immediately without thinking about burning recovery discs. I haven't dumped the hidden partition, and I want to make restoration discs or restore this laptop to the original condition and then make them. Alt+F10 at POST isn't doing anything, so I don't know how I can burn my discs.

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    One of the reasons why I want to restore the system is because I think I will be returning this laptop and eating the restocking fees. (Staples has another Acer with far better specs for the same price this week.) Anyway, one of the gripes I have with this laptop is that the keyboard seems to be off. My typing speed is roughly 95wpm, and oftentimes my typing is coming up with a lot of typos that I know I don't make. (ie: "the " comes out as "th e") If I slow my typing speed to 75-85wpm-ish, the keyboard is more consistent. I can "feel" my keystrokes being more deliberate, but it's frustrating to know that I'm being held back by the keyboard on this machine. Does anyone have similar issues or did I just happen to get a lemon?
     
    pandamonium54, Aug 27, 2007
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  2. Incursis

    Incursis Notebook Evangelist

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    Install Acer Empowering Technology and Acer eRecovery from: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_3680.html

    You should be able to burn them via eRecovery as long as the recovery partition is intact.

    Sometimes laptop keyboards take a little while to get used to. My words per minute has gone downhill since I used laptop keyboards. I can't even use desktop keyboards without making typos.
     
    Incursis, Aug 28, 2007
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    pandamonium54 Newbie

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    I found a link to an eRecovery download via google, and it wouldn't install (gave me an error when I ran it). Your link installs, but eRecovery doesn't run. I pretty much uninstalled everything on this machine, including .NET 1.1. After more googling, I found that eRecovery depends on .NET 1.1, so I reinstalled .NET and eRecovery. It still doesn't run. Any ideas?
     
    pandamonium54, Aug 30, 2007
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  4. Incursis

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    You need the Empowering Framework.
     
    Incursis, Aug 30, 2007
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    paulsiu Notebook Geek

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    In general, the keyboard on the Acer is absolute terrible, but after a while, you do get used to it a bit even thought it still sucks.
     
    paulsiu, Aug 30, 2007
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