Recent content by dmcconachi

:) I'm genuinely not aware of any questionable sites that I've visited It's all boxed up now. Back to Acer it goes I think! Thanks for your time!

Which poses three questions, what can I do to prevent them? What can i do to recover now? And will Acer see this as a fault outwith the warranty?

No error, just started grinding to a halt whilst playing a video, eventually wouldn't respond at all and after a reset, wouldn't boot (blank screen with cursor) AVG Free

I'm unable to confirm that but given it went from fully functional to dead very quickly I certainly can't rule it out.

It wouldn't boot. very similar actually to how the Windows 7 install is progressing. It would briefly show the "Windows is Loading" progress bar then just a blank/black screen. I've been "reliably" informed this is the result of a virus which corrupts the windows installation but it seems to me...

Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing. Trying a clean install but as above the installation doesn't even reach a point where it gives me the option!

Unless that is a Bios option then no. Can't get that far with current OS or with Windows 7 disc! Acer's silly built-in Recovery (factory restore) doesn't work either! So command prompt is obviously out too! Looks like a Return-to-Sender is going to be the only way! Really hoped to avoid that...

They've quoted paty of the warranty which states if it's found to be a software fault they will charge me £70. Given it's a corrupt windows install I'm guessing it's software related but anyway... Trying a clean install. As far as I can anyway, can't even get to a point where I have the...

Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 6930Z which is still under warranty. Recently the Vista installation became corrupted and wouldn't boot. Recovery didn't work and rather than ship back to Acer for them to somehow find a way to charge me I decided to buy a copy of Windows 7 instead. Putting the disc...