Tom's Hardware: Topic Acer Laptop Recovery
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Being a current Acer owner, I know the feeling. Their nice parts and high performance at the price come with a downside, they're not extremely reliable. I was playing NFSMW (need for speed most wanted) on battery and it died (about a year ago). When ever I tried to start it after that, it gave me the same error message. There is now way around it (that works that I could find and I spent hours)... So here's what I did. I went and picked up a Win Vista Home Premium from my office, I then booted from the disk and backed up everything on the C : / drive to an external backup drive. Then re-installed the OS and started over. I suggest removing the Empowering technology because it really is just bloatware and may be the cause of bugs like these. I haven't had Empowering Tech. on my computer for over a year and it runs great still. (overclocked from 1.6 ghz to 2.0 and gpu overclocked from 300mhz to 400mhz stable). (battery life is down to 17 minutes though 
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If you need any other help, ask, message me or just post here again I'd be glad to help out in any of the steps of this repair.
| ryanhmusic wrote : Being a current Acer owner, I know the feeling. Their nice parts and high performance at the price come with a downside, they're not extremely reliable. I was playing NFSMW (need for speed most wanted) on battery and it died (about a year ago). When ever I tried to start it after that, it gave me the same error message. There is now way around it (that works that I could find and I spent hours)... So here's what I did. I went and picked up a Win Vista Home Premium from my office, I then booted from the disk and backed up everything on the C : / drive to an external backup drive. Then re-installed the OS and started over. I suggest removing the Empowering technology because it really is just bloatware and may be the cause of bugs like these. I haven't had Empowering Tech. on my computer for over a year and it runs great still. (overclocked from 1.6 ghz to 2.0 and gpu overclocked from 300mhz to 400mhz stable). (battery life is down to 17 minutes though |
Hi,
Can you help me with getting my travelmate 2420 working? I don't have any of the recovery disks on hand since I'm travelling. I was able to borrow a friends XP home from her DEll and am here online now. went to the acer site to downlaod some drivers(not that i even really know what these are) and got the screen image sharper and the sound effects working. At the momment my only conection to internet is via a modem. what can i do so that the wireless connect works for me again. really this is my MAIN concern.
Thanks in advance
cookiemax
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