about a year ago i got a shitty little laptop to do homework on and its worked pretty good until 11 MONTHS ago...
when i start it, after about 1 second of loading it goes to the ACER Empowering People Sign and wont boot. if i press F2 to enter the setup it just says Please Wait.. FOREVER same for the F12 key.. i have pressed every button on the keyboard and quite literally every single keyboard combo i know but nothing works.. im screwed?
BTW its a Acer Aspire 5410 with all the cool laptop'y stuff that any laptop has... it runs on a insyde H2bios
Tech Support subforum, right at the very top of Hardware and Software. But since I don't want to be a jerk; did it come with a recovery disk?
If it were a desktop, I'd suggest switching the bios reset jumper to pins 2 and 3, but since it's a laptop, it doesn't work that way. Can you get to the cmos battery to pull it for 30 seconds or so?
uhm.. i have a disk for the operating system...[QUOTE=LordCrypto;26547585]Tech Support subforum, right at the very top of Hardware and Software. But since I don't want to be a jerk; did it come with a recovery disk?[/QUOTE]
The OS has nothing to do with the bios freezing at post. Ignore that comment about recovery discs. Answer my question.
faze knows what he is doing, more than I know what I am doing. Listen to him, and it was stupid of me to forget that running chkdsk wouldn't diagnose BIOS.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;26547713]faze knows what he is doing, more than I know what I am doing. Listen to him, and it was stupid of me to forget that running chkdsk wouldn't diagnose BIOS.[/QUOTE]
I'm a Senior Systems Engineer, I've done all this b/s desktop support shit.
Bios =/= OS. Recovery disks don't do shit. Think logically here.
nope.... i tried everythin with the battery aready
[QUOTE=ManolisV;26547842]nope.... i tried everythin with the battery aready[/QUOTE]
Not the laptop battery, the cmos battery.
[img]http://pctechnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/remove-battery.jpg[/img]
One of these.
SO I open it up and yank it out?
Carefully, but yes.
ok... il get back to you on what happend in like 10 mins
So pull it out, wait for 30 seconds then put it back in, seal it up and try to boot.
this a good... tutorial?
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8leHJxqrfk[/url]
[QUOTE=LarparNar;26547888]Not the laptop battery, the cmos battery.
[img_thumb]http://pctechnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/remove-battery.jpg[/img_thumb]
One of these.[/QUOTE]
What does that do excally ?
I'v never been told...
op are you under warndy ?
[QUOTE=ineedateam1;26548009]What does that do excally ?
I'v never been told...
op are you under warndy ?[/QUOTE]
When the PC is off or unplugged, the battery keeps the bios info/settings stored so it doesn't "forget" and reset your settings every time you turn on your computer.
[QUOTE=BURG;26548057]When the PC is off or unplugged, the battery keeps the bios info/settings stored so it doesn't "forget" and reset your settings every time you turn on your computer.[/QUOTE]
ah thanks
wait. this battery, is it deep inside the laptop?
It will be on the motherboard of your laptop. Depending on your model it may be deep inside. I don't really know laptops that well.
who is evan
and why is he a bios
Just open her up till you can get to it. or maybe find a service guide for you computer, that helped me with mine the fist time I disassembled it.
[QUOTE=koeniginator;26548287]who is evan
and why is he a bios[/QUOTE]
Stop being an ass.
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