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    New 5730z, Error, freezing...

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Enix, Dec 14, 2008.

  1. Enix

    Enix Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi! Just bought a new Acer laptop 5730z. (Acer Aspire 5730Z-322G16Mi)

    At first, when installing windows vista premium I got an error 0x d000000D in the very beginning after chosen language setup.. Then the system restarted and tried to re-install(?) software or so..

    Acer eRecovery Management
    Restore partition
    \harddisk0\partition2

    When it had done it 80-90 %, it started all over again three-four times. It stopped always somewhere between 80-90%. It took 1-2 hours to get Vista installed on this computer, after several restarting. After I got Vista installed, then Windows-updates won't work. The system freezes always when trying to get updates. Browser Firefox crashes all the time, even task manager crashes..

    Is the computer broken or is there something terrible wrong with vista? Maybe problem with memory? Motherboard? Corrupted harddisk, install-files? And yes, no cd's came with.. I didn't even manage to burn eRecovery dvd's (needed two disks). After one disk the eRecovery just stopped and said, that disk cannot be created.

    The whole computer is horrible :/

    I probably try to return this back to the reseller.
     
    Enix, Dec 14, 2008
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    Enix Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sisoft Sandra memory test won't work.. The system crashes...
     
    Enix, Dec 14, 2008
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    Now I cannot use the factory default. I get the blue screen :)

    Ok, just found a memory check-up tool. (Pressing f2(?) when restarting the OS). The check-up tool found an hardware error. And the advice was to contact manufacturer to solve the problem...

    Calling to the reseller tomorrow - hopefully they replace it.
     
    Enix, Dec 14, 2008
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    iamlew Newbie

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    go into your bios (f2 at startup) go through and find wher eit talks about your hard drive mode or something like sata type, change it from ahci(or some 4 letters) to IDE, save, reboot, install, should work fine.

    Atleast that was my problem with mine haha, vista sucks though, I put xp on it, luckily someone ported all the drivers for it =)

    if you need the xp drivers http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/11/acer-aspire-5730-aspire-5330-windows-xp.html if you need the vista ones, well good luck acer has the worst website ever, theres like 10 pages for looking for drivers, and half of them are broken links the other half don't have drivers, but they're there somewhere
     
    iamlew, Dec 27, 2008
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    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    Just out curios did you add any ram if so you cound problay remove stick of it run vista memorey tester again


    might just simply bad module
     
    andyasselin, Dec 27, 2008
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