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Take a can of air and blow off the fans. One inside the little metal box called a power supply inside the main case.
Also the cpu has a fan and heat sink on it that gets dust built inside and needs cleaning.
Warning, always unplug the power cord. Make sure you are touching something metal in the case while touching the inside of the PC. It can protect it from static shock.

Also never shake an air can. And don't spray while it's upside down. The liquid can seriously burn you.

Leith, volume should be on remote or a manual button on TV

If you have a Windows 7 system, log into safe mode by pressing F8 when your computer is booting up. Select "safe mode with command prompt" and press enter. Wait until the windows login screen comes up and then a command prompt should appear. Type net user in the command prompt and hit enter. Once you have done this, you should now see a list of all the users associated with the account. Type net user "Your user account name" and then your new password and hit enter. This should reset your password for the following user account.

The drive needs to be reformatted and ready to start over. When that has been done, you should be able to boot from the CD with the operating system on it automatically. The startup code is on the CD and tends to do everything for you.

Hi To activate the BIOS utility, press <F2> during the POST while the computer logo is being displayed. To set the boot sequence in the BIOS utility, activate the BIOS utility, then select Boot from the categories listed at the top of the screen. You can then choose the order in which the BIOS seeks bootable media. For your purposes the optical drive needs to be the first option. Do remember that during the boot sequence there are only about 5 seconds where it will say "Press any key to boot from CD......" after which it will revert to booting from the hard drive. If you go to this site, Drivers and Manuals you can choose your model from the options lists and can then download drivers and documents which you may need after your downgrade. Hope this is helpful, if so would you please register that with Fixya Cheers

An unresponsive touchpad could be caused by an issue with the touchpad driver. If the systems has a SYNAPTICS brand touchpad, Acer recommends downloading the touchpad driver 15.3.41.9 or later. The touchpad vendor can be determine by reviewing the information in your device manager as shown below.

1. From the Start menu, type device manager in the search box and press Enter.
2. In the Device Manager window, left click on the arrow next to Mice and other pointing devices.
3. Under Mice and other pointing devices you will find the touchpad vendor.

The easiest way is to unplug it (if it's a USB) or simply put a piece of tape over it.

>make sure your video cable is plugged in on both sides. >make sure your video cable has no bent or damaged pins. >try a different video cable >connect a different monitor that you know for sure works >take YOUR monitor and connect it to a different computer Does it work? If no, the monitor is bad. If yes, either your video cable is bad or the video card in your computer has failed. If none of the above work, I hang out at www.suggest-a-fix.com which is a free computer help forum. Post in the Hardware section and I (or someone else) will be along. This forum is not set up for complicated problems that require repeated, in-depth communication.

You posted: press the monitor to start my computer What do you mean? Pressing the monitor power button will not start your computer, you must press the power button on the computer itself. I think you did not mean this, but I don't know. For more free in-depth help go to www.suggest-a-fix.com which is a free computer help forum that I belong to. Post in the Hardware section and I (or someone else) will be along. This forum is not set up for complicated problems that require detailed, in-depth communications.

Simply go to www.acer.com and download the driver for the OS & model.

Hello Most of the time its a driver issue which means software problem. Here is a webpage that can help you fix it. How to Resolve No Sound on Windows Computer Just follow the steps and yes there are pictures! hope that helps

VIRUS. a big bad one. Try the restore discs or a bootable USB. you made a bootable restore right? RIGHT?

enter BIOS mode and find section reset to default configuration

You would have to update the firmware, and find region free firmware for the exact dvd drive (I don't know the model number) Determine the make from your device manager and lok for firmware here: However there is a software solution but it costs money although it is the best solution SlySoft AnyDVD HD The Firmware Page

Update the drivers for the touchpad, OR you can change the speed of touchpad by going to Control Panel. I mean seriously, do you people even READ?

Sorry to hear about your computer problems. If you are re-installing your software from a factory partition and you are hanging up in one of the processes, chances are good that you have Bad sectors and blocks on you hard drive. This partition is a reserve and if damaged, will be useless. If the system hangs, your information will still be on the drive. Find a 64 bit version of win7 and try to repair. If you have a USB external drive, you can transfer any needed data to it. Also, if you have a emergency boot disk, you may be able to restart unit to retrieve data. Hope this helps.

could be what they call the INVERTER behind the screen has shut down,try putting your pc to another monitor useing a vga cable.if the monitor shows your windows then you will know if your screen has gone.or the inverter.

Unfortunately for Toshiba you will need the restore disks from Toshiba. You can go online and purchase the Disks. Option 2 1 - Use your old computer to download software so you can retrieve your Windows KEY, unless there is a sticker on your computer that has it printed. 2 - Download a correponding version of windows on the internet and use your key. 3 - After install, you may have to go to toshiba website and download needed drivers. This should work just fine.

Download the drivers from regional Acer website and install, this should work most of the time, if that does not resolve your problem then contact Acer tech support for more advice