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    HELP! Done "restore to factory setings" with empowering technology. will no longer start

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dazhat, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. dazhat

    dazhat Newbie

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    Acer aspire 9303WSMi

    I have had the laptop for only a few days

    the orbicam stopped working and I couldnt get it to work by using any drivers so I tried the emowering technology restore to factory settings.

    it seemed fine and shut itself down. When I tried to turn it back on it brings up the acer logo and I can get into setup by pressing F2 but then it goes to a black screen with some odd characters including "...8,u..." in the middle of it.


    has anyone else had this problem?

    I havnt made any backup disk or anything because it didnt ask me to but I am begining to wonder if I should have done.



    Please help!

    thanks
     
    dazhat, Jul 10, 2007
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  2. deltafx1942

    deltafx1942 Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    if it is that new, maybe you could return it to where ever you bought it and get a regund/exchange?
     
    deltafx1942, Jul 10, 2007
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  3. dazhat

    dazhat Newbie

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    yes but if anyone knows the answer to the problem then that would be alot easier

    thanks!
     
    dazhat, Jul 10, 2007
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  4. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    I would question what else you did to the laptop.

    Unfortunately the empowering tech "restore" never seems to be as foolproof as I would have liked/thought it to be.

    Did you mess around with any partitions, do anything with converting to NTFS or anything like that?
     
    Arla, Jul 10, 2007
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  5. dazhat

    dazhat Newbie

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    I did alter some partitions but only on my external hdd to install linux. the latop wont start properly if the hdd is plugged in or not.

    although you can start linux.
     
    dazhat, Jul 11, 2007
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  6. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    Hmm, without knowing exactly what you did it's hard to say, you could try taking it back (although they might say it's your problem since you tried to do a restore, not quite sure how that works) you could try deleting any partitions (other than the restore partition) and then booting off that, seemed to work when I had trouble restoring on mine, but I also had backup disks so could restore from those without having to worry about whether the restore partition would work.
     
    Arla, Jul 11, 2007
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