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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Prophet on September 18, 2007, 06:34:27 am
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So I had this Acer rig lying around. It was a high time to do an OS reinstall. It didn't come with any driver CD or anything else useful like that. Just a pre installed OS with needed drivers. Which of course got wiped out down to the deepest levels of hell, hopefully.
I expect that the audio drivers might be the hardest ones to find after OS install. I'm not sure yet if I was right. After 3 hours of switching between my old computer and this one I finally got it online. Acers drivers support SUCKS. I'm still not sure what it was preventing me getting online anyway. But I got that sorted out. And everythin else is going on smoothly enough.
But I'm not getting sound! Device manager shows the infamous yellow smudge on the Realtek high definition audio device. Properties shows me the driver is corrupted or missing, and I'm not geeting the little speaker in my system tray. I have tried the drivers from Acers site. And I have tried the drivers from Realteks site. Same result, that is nothing.
So after three hours of work to get this online and two hours combing the net on audio problems, I'm getting a bit tired. Does anybody have any idea what might be going on?
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Use these if possible:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/
And what exactly is your Acer model #?
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Like I said, I tried the ones on Realteks site. Dey aint working. They install just fine like a good obidient driver should, but don't really seem to be doing anything.
And the rig is Acer Aspire E380. The driver the Acer site gives for this model is also no good...
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As much as I hate to suggest it. You could always buy a $10.00 sound card.
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Well it would be driving 60 clicks for a shop that might have them (I happen to live in a void where computer shops don't exist). Or mailordering, in which case it would take 3-5 days excluding weekends. The onboard sound ain't so hot, so I have been toying with the idea of getting a new card.
But the problem is: WTF is wrong!? I like playing with computers, but I hate it when they start playing with me. I've been hitting the internet hard on this quest to find a solution, but no luck so far. Although there are numerous creative solutions to problems vaguely similar to mine.
My hope now is to find a mind with experience, or enough creativity to solve this bugger.
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Does the PC produce sound when you're using a Linux Live[installation]CD of your choice?
That would at least cut out the possibility of hardware malfunction in the sound circuits... although based on my limited knowledge, I suspect that if an onboard sound circuit is damaged the MOBO itself wouldn't work or would at least be unstable or somesuch.
Heh, if it works you could always just make it a Linux box. Would be kinda cool to have a PC that is easier to use properly with Linux than Windows... Ah the irony. :lol:
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Har har har.
I don't have Linux handy... And sound device getting destroyed during a simple OS reinstall would be just so rotten luck I would throw up...
But I just recently acknowledged that as a possibility. I've been trying a lot of drivers. Though they have all been similar Realtek .exe's, they have all failed to install properly. So claims the rig.
This simply won't do! I can't listen to motivational music so my schoolwork will go to hell. And I'm already badly behind schedule.
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Umm... do you have the latest mobo chipset drivers already installed?
EDIT: Can you get CPU-Z (see my sig) and let me know the make & model of your motherboard?
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Yah... Though they too are from Acer site, I remain confident they are what they're supposed to (ish).
I guess that would however also explain why none of the gazillion audio drivers install properly. Right?
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See my EDIT above... what's your mobo make / model?
If the chipset drivers aren't installed right, that would prevent audio drivers from installing... try uninstalling the audio drivers, uninstalling the chipset drivers, and then re-installing latest chipset, then audio. Be sure to pay attention to irritating little details like "you must restart and let windows re-install its drivers before installing chipset drivers again"... I get that crap on mine, PITA, but if you do it right, it leaves you alone.
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That is some awful customer care if they didn't deliver a driver CD with the computer. I just did a complete reinstall of XP on my laptop last weekend (and it only took 8 hours if you count the update hustle and some antivirus program issues). My rig came with a clearly named Notebook Driver CD that also had an automatic installation option. Everything, including the on-board sound circuit worked perfectly. And I too have the Realtek audio device.
Though I did get some funky error the first time, when installing the drivers. The brave XP intervened with its own suggestions for dealing with new devices and I failed to stop it before it messed the thing up. Luckily I was able to cripple it when reinstalling the drivers. After that, success!
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Theres part of the CPU-Z results...
I'll see what can be found on the chipset issue... I'm loosing faith in Acers ability to provide good software.
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CPU-Z version 1.41
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Processors Map
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 2
Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0
-- Core 1
-- Thread 0
Processors Information
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Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 2
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Codename Windsor
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Package Socket AM2 (940)
CPUID F.B.2
Extended CPUID F.4B
Brand ID 4
Core Stepping BH-F2
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 2009.0 MHz (10.0 x 200.9 MHz)
HT Link speed 1004.5 MHz
Stock frequency 2000 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
L1 Data cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
max FID 10.0x
max VID 1.400 V
Features XD, VT
K8 Thermal sensor yes
K8 Revision ID 5.2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3
Chipset
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Northbridge NVIDIA MCP61 rev. A1
Southbridge NVIDIA MCP61 rev. A2
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 1024 MBytes
Memory Frequency 251.1 MHz (CPU/8)
CAS# 4.0
RAS# to CAS# 4
RAS# Precharge 4
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Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 17
Command Rate 1T
Memory SPD
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DIMM #1
General
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Apacer Technology (7F7A000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number
Manufacturing date Week 43/Year 06
Attributes
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Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 200 266 266
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RAS# to CAS# delay 3 4 4
RAS# Precharge 3 4 4
TRAS 9 12 12
TRC 12 16 16
DIMM #2
General
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) Apacer Technology (7F7A000000000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number
Manufacturing date Week 43/Year 06
Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 200 266 266
CAS# 3.0 4.0 5.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 3 4 4
RAS# Precharge 3 4 4
TRAS 9 12 12
TRC 12 16 16
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Monitoring
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Mainboard Model EM61SM/EM61PM (0x35E - 0x20210C4D)
LPCIO
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Vendor ITE
Vendor ID 0x90
Chip ID 0x8726
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Dump config mode register space, LDN = 0x4
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Snipped majorlly...
@Lobo:
Sometimes they do that. If the rig is some pos corporate bundle back like this, they expect the customer to make a recovery disk from the pre installed bloatware filled OS the rig shipped with...
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Hmm, I meant I just need this info:
(http://i17.tinypic.com/4ra5zmh.jpg)
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Well there you have it. Again.
Unless someone comes up with a bright idea, I'm giving up a cuttin my wrists with a chainsaw. This pile-o-crap aint working. I wish I'd found out whats wrong. Might be the chip that's broken. Might be the chipset that's scewered, somehow. Might be that I've been installing wrong audio drivers all day.
All I can say for certain is that this sucks royally.
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This is surely a driver problem, since a hardware problem like this is very rare. I have Realtek also with a similar mobo.
It shouldn't matter whether you use the acer realtek driver or the realtek realtek driver, but get the acer one working first, in case it has been customized.
Is this your machine?
http://www.superwarehouse.com/Acer_Aspire_E380_Mini_Tower_Desktop/ASE380-UD420A/ps/1499863
Did you keep Vista? Is it possible to install a driver from the wrong OS?
Is your onboard sound still enabled in the bios?
Are you using these chipset drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf400_winVista_15.01G.html
Do you only have one yellow exclamation point in device manager? (it's called a "bang")
If you boot into safe mode and go into device manager, do you see more than one audio device installed? (Don't know if this is applicable to Vista)
Either way, delete them all then reboot and be sure to select drivers manually from the list when new hardware is detected, don't let Windows do it automatically.
Just curious, you have integrated video, but are you able to use these?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_163.69.html
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Is your onboard sound still enabled in the bios?
That's a good point... If you installed a new BIOS could it have different default settings regarding the onboard sound card? :nervous:
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First off, are you have you installed XP or Vista? I'm assuming it's XP, because you stated the system was older.
Realtek, eh? I had the exact same problem you're having when I did an OS reinstall on my Asus laptop. You're actually missing a piece of software called the UAA audio driver. What you need to do is uninstall whatever sound drivers you have on there currently. Next, go here (http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/A6J/UAA_XP_060220.zip). It's the download link to the XP version of the UAA driver. I know it comes from Asus, but the driver was written by Microsoft, so it's standardized across PC's. Once you have installed the UAA driver, reboot if you need to, then install the actual sound card drivers. Reboot again if needed, and set your sound options in the Control Panel. That should do it.
Here's why: M$ is pushing this universal audio interface standard called UAA. The UAA software sits between the hardware and the actual sound card drivers from Realtek. So, the UAA interfaces with your hardware, passes the data to the Realtek drivers, then outputs sound. Unfortunately, almost no one knows about the UAA driver and M$ has been incredibly poor about distributing it with systems. (And when I say poor, I mean poor. You can't even get the UAA driver off their website.) So that's why most sound card driver installs go so badly nowadays.
NOTE: After following these steps, you might get a nag screen at bootup saying that Windows has detected new hardware. This is probably Windows picking up your dial up modem, which for some reason M$ decided to tie to the UAA drivers... :rolleyes: To get rid of it, you'll need to grab the drivers for that too.
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Ya, ok, after you get done with Tyrian's advice (or before, w/e), do double-check that its not some silly thing such as your WAV output being muted in the Volume Control (double-click the speaker icon in the system tray, and make sure all sliders / mute buttons are set correctly)... try muting and then unmuting the sound (sounds crazy, but that worked for me once). Also, make sure you don't have an option labeled "Digital Output Only" checked, as IIRC, that sends all audio to the SPDIF output (instead of the normal mini jacks).
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Is this your machine?
http://www.superwarehouse.com/Acer_Aspire_E380_Mini_Tower_Desktop/ASE380-UD420A/ps/1499863
Nay. I think there is a couple of different kind of E380. Mine's crappier than that.
Did you keep Vista? Is it possible to install a driver from the wrong OS?
It came with XP media center. Now I installed XP professional SP2. Pretty identical, so I doubt that's it.
Is your onboard sound still enabled in the bios?
Are you using these chipset drivers?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf400_winVista_15.01G.html
Do you only have one yellow exclamation point in device manager? (it's called a "bang")
If it were disabled in BIOS would the rig still detect it all right at startup? Coz' it does.
Those drivers are for Vista...
Yes, only one "bang". Check attachment...
If you boot into safe mode and go into device manager, do you see more than one audio device installed? (Don't know if this is applicable to Vista)
Either way, delete them all then reboot and be sure to select drivers manually from the list when new hardware is detected, don't let Windows do it automatically.
Haven't tried that yet...
@Tyrian:
I tried that. Didn't work. No change at all...
One last thing. I keep getting this annoying "Generic host process errors" all the time. It's supposed to be a common problem and not affect anything really. So that can't be the cause. Weird thing is that I installed the hotfix from microsoft, and I still get the error...
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Acer Aspire E380: (select Desktop > Aspire E380)
http://www.acerpanam.com/flex/acerdrivers/bin/drivers.html?CFID=3789055&CFTOKEN=66865926
The drivers are for Vista. Problem.... hmm. Have to see if you can get those drivers for XP. Best to do that from the various manufacturers... if you can find them. I'm betting that you installed chipset drivers designed for Vista, right?
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No, I have installed no Vista drivers. Audio or chipset. Like the drivers in your link, there very clearly says they are for Windows XP. Infact, AFAIK only recently Vista drivers for E380 started appearing because only recently did they start selling this model with Vista. Majority of the drivers they offer for E380 are XP drivers.
All audio drivers I install end up "corrupted or not working". If I go to the driver properties and try to chance the settings, I'm told that the driver cannot be loaded and that some of the driver files might be missing. Could it be possible there is something wrong in the OS itself?
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Could it be possible there is something wrong in the OS itself?
You mean more wrong than what is normal for Windows? :p
Did you re-install Windows from Windows installation disk(s) or some kind of system recovery disk/partition?
If it's the latter, perhaps there's some random DLL file of wrong name hidden in somewhere as a remnant from an older/original driver or whatever that screws up everything. Clean installation shouldn't have such problems... but with Windows, asking if something is wrong is kinda pointelss because you know there are a lot of things wrong in it.
Have you installed any service packs/Windows updates? Canät see how they would make a difference but you never know when you're speaking about computers.
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It was a clean installation in the sense that I wiped out C. There is a third partition that showed up during the installation which I assume might have something to do with the the old system recovery screwy setup thing. I didn't touch it since I didn't know what that was, and it was only about 4 gigs... Or 400 megs or something small like that so I didn't bother myself with that. And it shouldn't cause a problem if the OS itself is new and has nothing to do with it. Right?
It's just a plain XP prof SP2, no updates apart from .NET 2.0 to get catalyst running without *****ing...
I was generally meaning that maybe there is something wrong that is specifically making audio drivers unwelcome... Windows is screwy, but it should still manage to blurb out annoying sounds. This can't do even that!
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Okay. I reinstalled Windows. Everything is working like a charm, including the hellish chimes of the XP. So I guess the previous installation was just more crooked than usual. It was a Phyrric victory this time...
I wish to extend my thanks to all those who bothered themselves with this and helped me to solve this problem. I'll buy you a drink anytime.
For some reason I now seem to have two XP installations on my computer... I guess one never gets it perfect. :rolleyes:
I haven't yet dared to see what heppens if I try to start the other XP, and I doubt I ever will. Seeing us everything is working just fine for the moment, I don't want to jinx it by being too nosy.
Thanks again. I'm off to do some gaming to avoid getting depressed by schoolwork that is very much late. :nervous:
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For some reason I now seem to have two XP installations on my computer... I guess one never gets it perfect. :rolleyes:
I haven't yet dared to see what heppens if I try to start the other XP, and I doubt I ever will. Seeing us everything is working just fine for the moment, I don't want to jinx it by being too nosy.
When you get some spare time, and if you wish to find out if you actually have two versions of XP running, or just two entries in your boot.ini (in which case you can get rid of one and save the hassle of waiting for the countdown timer):
1) Hold down your Windows key, and press Pause | Break (located at top of keyboard, above the right arrow key).
2) Click "Advanced" on top.
3) Under the "Startup and Recovery" section near the bottom, click the "Settings" button.
4) Under the "System startup" section, click the "Edit" button, near the middle of the box. (Don't worry; this won't harm anything. :D )
5) Select everything (CTRL + A) and CTRL + C it to a post... when exiting, don't save the file changes if it asks you. (It shouldn't; you didn't change anything... but still! ;) )
Or, you can just interpret the results yourself... I have two different partitions; I'll show you my boot.ini:
[boot loader]
timeout=5 This is how long Windows waits before selecting the default OS entry, defined below.
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS This is the location of the OS you wish to load by default if no other OS is chosen before the timeout defined above expires.
[operating systems] This is a list of Operating Systems, see notes afterward.
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional on drive M" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons
Take a look at the following articles; after you've read them all (they aren't long), you should have a pretty good idea of how the boot.ini works.
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/bootini.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/bootini.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR#boot.ini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR#boot.ini)
Now, if I had something like:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Noting that both locations are the same, I can just erase the non-default one and have done with the prompt for the separate OS, which is actually just another pointer to my one true OS. If the switches at the end were different, I'd take a look at the switches definitions mentioned in the above links, and customize as necessary, or, alternatively, just keep the ones that are tagged onto the working (default) entry.
Now, if your partition numbers are different, then you have 2 XP OSes installed... which can come in handy. Try booting the other OS... it should come up with XP the way it was before you re-installed. True; the sound is broken... but, if you can fix it by copying files or whatever from the other OS partition, then you have a "test" OS that you can screw around with before actually applying changes to the other OS.
Of course, you may never feel like tackling this... but if you do, and you need help or have questions, don't hesitate to ask. :)
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Wow... i haven't touched multi boots since the glory days of autoexec.bat and config.sys and the constant struggle for the conventional memory...
Sniff.. Reminds me of the good old times... :)
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Ya I have some experience with multiple OSsi. Me old rig wouldn't detect the new HD if I didn't keep the old and trusty Win2k there. Just it being there on the old HD helped the new XP that lived on the new HD to actually boot up. But that's ages ago. This boot.ini stuff is new to me. might have come handy back then.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
I do however have only two partitions. So why the extra entry tells the bad guy resides on the non existant third partition?
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...That's yer recovery partition. "Invisible". Ye should be able t' create recovery disk from th' contents. I'm lookin' up how t' access it now... stand by.
EDIT: OK, Goob, did y' really haf ta type 'arrrwalktheplank'??? :arrr:
EDIT2: OK, Start > All Programs > Acer Empowering Technology > Acer eRecovery is the installed manager for that... also, ALT + F10 during POST (the part during power-on where it says "acer" on your screen, or tests the memory) gives you recovery options.
http://websupport.acer.com.tw/et2/upload/info/363/Acer%20eRecovery%20Management%20Eng.pdf
hi,
I want to erase hidden recovery partition in my aspire 5102wlmi notebook.
I burned my recovery dvd's and I want to burn my own image DVD but I don't want to copy this hidden partition in my own recovery partition.
Could someone please tell me how can I find this partition.
Thank you.
Download Gparted ISO, Burn to CD or DVD, then Boot up with Gparted CD.
It will show the hidden Partition which will be PQSERVICE and/or DEV1. Basically the first and the smallest one.
Heres the download link ..... http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828
Set Bios to boot from CD, if it doesn't already do so.
I'm thinking about doing the same myself. But I'm going to burn another copy first. I rather have two copies or more, than just one.
-I recommend GParted; I use it all the time, and its excellent. However, you may want to know how to recover your MBR with the Recovery Console before attempting this... let me know if you want details.
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Nay. I formatted that too and it merged it with the new OS partition. Would it be possible that some of it remained in the small piece the Windiws reserves for itself?
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Yer troubleshooting broadsides do be hilariously disfigured. :lol:
Ye migh' want to keel-haul yer gunners, for their aim do be abysmally distracted.
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Nay. I formatted that too and it merged it with the new OS partition. Would it be possible that some of it remained in the small piece the Windiws reserves for itself?
What'd you use to do it? GParted? Oh, and if Windows boots up fine, then don't worry about the MBR; its working fine.
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Dude! Quit editing your old posts. You're seriously messing me mind. :)
Forget about Acers bloatware, it go lost when I installed the OS anew. And I did it by booting to the installation CD and then business as usual....