Posts by markwhite

This website has now been pulled by the host :-( I no longer have any of the guides I previously uploaded, though I got them from Emule quickly and easily so there's no reasons others shouldn't too. I do now have the Service Guide for...

Quote: Originally Posted by pharlaptop Hi- thanks for creating the site. I'm able to d/l fine from it, but can't establish an ftp connection to upload. I've got a few popular manuals that might be of use. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by pharlaptop I've uploaded some of the manuals I've got to rapidshare, although ironically, I can't d/l from there apparently. A browser setting. Links are in other thread req'ing...

While trying to find a SG for the TM2000 series I've managed to collect a few other guides, and so have put them all online at: http://members.lycos.co.uk/acersg/ Here's the README I put on there. I hope it's of use to...

Quote: Originally Posted by pharlaptop I flashed my 5102 as soon as I got it with no problems A happy story :-) It's a ballache when it goes wrong :-( Quote: Originally Posted by...

Quote: Originally Posted by pharlaptop That's encouraging that they have that. I honestly have not heard of such a think as a bootblock restore, which has to be the lowest of safemodes possible Then I'd...

Quote: Originally Posted by fizx It starts cpu fan kicks on hd starts but I have a blank screen. I have plugged in external screen nothing and waited to see if it would make it to windows IE hear the logon sounds. It...

Quote: Originally Posted by markwhite If I get a reply from Acer in the meantime, I'll be delighted and happy that my experience of Acer disagrees with that of others. And today (3 days from request) I got a...

Quote: Originally Posted by pharlaptop If you killed the bios, that crisis disk stuff won't help. I'm not an expert on BIOS matters and so have had to go from the information in a number of threads I've found...

So I killed my BIOS my mistakenly running a BIOS update in WinXP... Power light, power to drives but nothing else. After much searching I found I might be able to reflash it using a Crisis Recovery Disk, an external USB floppy drive...