Tom's Hardware > Forum > Laptops & Notebooks > General Laptops & Notebooks > [Solved] Acer Aspire 4720Z Will not boot anymore.

[Solved] Acer Aspire 4720Z Will not boot anymore.

Forum Laptops & Notebooks : General Laptops & Notebooks - [Solved] Acer Aspire 4720Z Will not boot anymore.

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply

Best answer from mistermister.

Word :    Username :           
 
arcade   09-22-2009 at 05:45:38 AM

Hello everyone, first time caller here. :lol:

Anyway I made the mistake of purchasing an inexpensive Acer Aspire 4720Z awhile back.
Now the thing will no longer boot.
I have tried reading some of the other threads here but none seem to have my exact problem.
I went ahead and paid Acer for the recovery disk and system disk but they will not boot either.
I also went ahead and downloaded the ultimate boot CD just in case I need anything on there.

Now here is my problem.
If I let the laptop boot to windows normally I get a BSOD.
Alt + F10 does nothing.
F12 will let me boot from the system CD but I get a "Type Mismatch" error every time after it asks for the recovery CD.

On normal boot up I always get the following errors:
PXE-E61 Media Test Failure
PXE-M0F Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM

I can get to the recovery options screen but none of the options help.
They are in order (Startup Repair, System Restore, Windows complete pc restore, windows memory diagnostic tool, and command prompt)

I hope I have given enough detail to help.
I have also already changed in the BIOS the D2D setting to enabled and the boot from CD first.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated

Add a reply
Best answer from mistermister
Since that page was written, MS has added a hotfix to their ppage on that issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946084
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
mistermister   09-30-2009 at 12:03:51 AM
Best answer

Since that page was written, MS has added a hotfix to their ppage on that issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946084

Reply to mistermister
arcade   09-30-2009 at 07:30:07 AM

Thanks for the info.
I will check into that as soon as I have time.

Reply to arcade
arcade   10-01-2009 at 12:58:01 AM

Just checked, now that I know what error message to look for on my. BSOD.

The error message I am getting is 0X00000024

Anyone know what that might be?
Thanks again.


Message edited by arcade on 10-01-2009 at 04:04:00 AM
Reply to arcade
arcade   10-01-2009 at 06:53:30 AM

After doing a little research, it would seem that I have a NTFS problem.
So I went to this link to try and fix it.
http://www.retosphere.de/tipsandtr [...] enu_id=24&

I chose the Slax program.
When I ran the cfdisk in the Linux shell it told me my HDD was /dev/hda
However when I run the "ntfsfix /dev/hda" command I get a command not found error.
If I type "nftsfix/dev/hda" without the space between ntfsfix and /dev I get a no such file or directory.

I know nothing about linux or this Slax program.
Any help or tips would be appreciated.

Reply to arcade
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Laptops & Notebooks > General Laptops & Notebooks > [Solved] Acer Aspire 4720Z Will not boot anymore.
Go to:

There are 1319 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.320 seconds
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them