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    Help Acer 5102 Error.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by sbpatel, Apr 15, 2007.

  1. sbpatel

    sbpatel Notebook Consultant

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    Hi everyone,

    I was using my laptop and all of a sudden a blue screen pops up. I don't remember exactly what it said but a part of it said some like "check to see new hardware installtion is correct" or something like that. Anyway, the computer auto restarts and is on the intial start up where it checks the hard ware componets and it keeps looping with the same message. "Fixed Disk Error" which I assume is the HD. Anyone have any ideas?
     
    sbpatel, Apr 15, 2007
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    mujtaba ZzzZzz Super Moderator

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    Try safe mode.
    What happens in that case?
     
    mujtaba, Apr 15, 2007
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  3. sbpatel

    sbpatel Notebook Consultant

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    THat's weird. i kept hitting f8 as soon as it turned on and it booted up fine. i'm going to run ad aware avg spy doctor. anything else i should do?
     
    sbpatel, Apr 15, 2007
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    Evolution Vox Sola

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    This is not completely related to your problem but for BSOD if you want time to read what it says and stop the computer from automatically restarting you should right click on my computer go to properties then advanced tab then down to startup and recovery settings then under "system failure" uncheck "automatically restart" that will stop the computer from automatically restarting when a BSOD occurs. This will give you time to read the error message then you can restart the computer manually yourself when you are finished.

    Hope this helps you in the future...
     
    Evolution, Apr 15, 2007
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