20 Most Recent Acer Aspire M1201 Athlon X2 320 Gb PC Desktop - Page 2 Questions & Answers

Hi,

You can reinstall the wireless drivers from the Acer recovery management, to do so:
Start Menu> All Programs> Acer erecovery management> Restore> Restore Application & Drivers> Contents> Select Broadcom/Atheros wireless LAN and install it
Once the installation is over restart the computer.

OR

Got to http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/
Select the computer model
Select Operating System installed on your computer
Click Drivers
Select Wireless LAN and download it.
Once downloaded, install it on your computer and restart the computer

Thanks and regards,
Jitha

you have to reinstall the driver for the wireless nic that you have, somehow it was removed it seems like.

Hi,

It appears that the Windows is corrupted on your computer, you can restore the computer back to factory default,to do so, follow the below steps: Turn OFF the computer, now as soon as you hit the power button, keep on holding "Alt" key & keep on tapping "F10" key, i.e Alt+f10, it will open the recovery console, select full factory restore and follow onscreen instruction.

NOTE: This will erase all the datas on the computer.
Thanks and regards,
Jitha

Please check to see that the LED light on the motherboard is lighting up. Also, if the BIOS appears on the monitor, please make sure that the hard drives are properly connected and that you can hear then spinning and/or see the Hard Drive LED light up. It sounds as if your motherboard is receiving power, but something else is not. Please also make sure that your processor's heat sink is properly seated and secure.

Does the keyboard initialize?
If it does, (the caps lock/num lock lights flas, then the system seems to be working. In thet case, check the connection to the monitor then check the VGA board. If it doesn't initialize, you probably have a mother board fault.
Hope this helps.

Usually if you were to press the normal ON button that should start it up again.

If the PC will not recognise any CD, re boot the PC with your Windows system CD/DVD in the tray. If it reads the disk, the DVD unit is OK, you probably have a conflict somewhere in the drivers.
Go to Control panel, Device manager, double click on DVD/CD-ROM drive, select the DVD drive, doulbe click and from the menu select Driver. Select Uninstall driver and reboot your PC.
When it boots the PC will look for a new driver and place it where there is no conflict.
Hope that helps.

The first thing to know before attempting to work on the inside of a computer is that a simple static spark (like when you rub your feet on a carpeted floor and zap your friend.... is around 30,000 volts.....believe it or not it's true and that spark can destroy your computers graphics card, sound card, memory chips, and processor)...buy a grounding cable (Radio Shack - attaches to your wrist and clips to the compute case)...or at the very least...Take your shoes and socks off and make sure you check by touching a friend or family member to make sure your'e not holding a charge.
Now you are read to open the case on your computer...There is usually a screw on the back of the computer that has to be removed and the case slides to the back or from the bottom to the top to remove it....You will need to remove the screws that hold the drive into the holder....Once removed you will need to locate the hard drive and remove the two cables attached to it...One is the power cable (the smaller one) and the other is the cable that attaches to the mother board. ....Replace the old hard drive with the new one and connect the cables....Put it all back together and turn on the computer....It should recognize the new drive and you're off and running....You will need to re-install your operating system and take it from there.

It depends on how much application you will need to load. Sometimes corrupted registry or virus will slow it down.
You can check the following link for some hints about how to clean and defrag your hard disk and perform a scan online.
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

With the follow link, you can perform a diagnose of windows system and fix some configuration and registry issues automatically.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/slow_windows_performance

Have you tried connecting an external monitor and see if that one would work? Also, are you hearing any startup sound when you turn on the computer? If there is, and there is a good display on an external monitor, then it is the LCD that is causing the problem.

No PDF I know of will help you :)...a pdf is not software of any sorts..PDF stands for Portable Document Format and is used for documents only. Having said that, are you able to get the items off of the SD Card or is it so distorted that you can't get it? If so, a practical option would be to try cleaning any dust in the SD card slot and try again...or try to obtain an external card reader and try it that way. A free option would be to go to your local WalMart photo center and see if it happens there as well...if it happens at WM-most likely your SD Card is bad...if it doesn't the external card reader is a sure fix.

Cylinder Icon Usually = HARD DRIVE ACTIVITY!

PULL SIDE OFF of computer, CHECK BOTH ENDS OF sata CABLES if THE HARD DRIVES ARE sata, IF not, CHECK THE CONNECTORS, NO MATTER THE TYPE. also, CHECK THE POWER CONNECTORS. Those SATA connectors are FAMOUS for coming JUST loose enough to NOT work, but LOOK like they are plugged in, Make CERTAIN computer is UNPLUGGED, and YOU ground yourself to computer before sticking your paws in computer., CAN cost u a lot of money. A LOT of those ar e HOT plug, but, don't find out the hard way!
Just MOVING the computer can loosen the SATA connector enough to not work. CAREFUL, I always reseat all cables, video card, memory, other cards, JUST to be certain after a move. AND, HEATSINKS/CPUs. Actually, just Heatsinks, CPU's are pretty safe. IF you pull Heatsink off, clean off the heatsink and CPU surface of thermal paste,l and replace wtih a minimal amount of Thermal Paste, Aprrox. .003"

Robert Two Bears, PhD

Newer cameras may have SDHC cards - these have a high capacity. Older computers can't read the newer SDHC cards - they can only read the old SD Cards. The SD card and SDHC cards look exactly the same. The SDHC card will probably say "SDHC" on it somewhere. Fortunately you can buy a USB SDHC card reader for a computer for around £2 on amazon. I would buy one of those. You could search the internet for "usb sdhc card reader".

Please go thru this link to find the manual.

http://support.acer.com/us/en/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireM1200/AspireM1200nv.shtml?Team=%2Fus%2Fen%2Facerpanam%2Fdesktop%2F0000%2FAcer%2FAspireM1200%2FAspireM1200nv.shtml

yes there is , **** its not what you sould do.....u should try to flash again using a floppy drive in dos.
if u dont know how to do that, google for it, its not wise to flash in windows ;)

Re-boot it..?

Perhaps you can try pulling the battery, waiting a couple of minutes and then putting it back in/retrying the boot.
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Most modern home PCs & laptops built in the last 4 years or so have a separate section of the hard drive loaded with the software to reinstall the system. It requires pushing a key or keys in a special sequence during start up. As this is different between PC brands, consult the support site of the PC manufacturer or the if it came with paper documentation, it may be in that.

If the internal hard drive has failed then you won't be able to access the section containing the reinstall software. I this case the manufacturer can provide you with reinstall disks for a nominal price. Replace the bad hard drive. Many manufactures will require the model of the system and serial number as the reinstall disk is specific to that particular model. Failure to provide this information may cause the reinstall process to fail.

PLEASE NOTE: Running an installation on a system will cause all data on the drive to be wiped. Make sure to back up or recover data prior to any reinstallation. Data is things such as documents, pictures, save files, email and the things PC users generate during the use of the PC.

after press power botton fress F8 key for a while , u have got some msg the. just select "last known good configuraion " press enter again enter run your system and watch what is going. if the same problem then you need your install you OS again.

Yes, the fan should run continuously else the processor will get toasted. It get very hot without the fan even when the PC is not doing anything visibly.