Acer Aspire™ T180 PC Desktop - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

NO OS told , but is 2008 relic AMD chips ATI SB600 has zero support now for the OS or the maker,Acer. just happen out of the blue? or bought a relic failing PC, no history told blue? when did login';s last work great. was good but not now, the OS is corrupted or the HDD is bad. this is a 2007 vISTA PC, oct 2009 is w7 and your PC is older The OS can be hacked easy VISTAS login hacks. but.. but if still fails the HDD is bad as most are 9 years old even 5yo. we run full smart tests in a shop on any old PC we run that on the HDD if fails it is a no good drive. buy a new boot drive and load VISTA 32 or 64bit only there is no w7 hear. seen here and proof. and AMD also ended all nforce chip support / https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/338?b=1 but you have no Vista install disks./

Please refer to this website and download a DVD decoder that corresponds to your operating system. One of these programs will unlock the DVD decoding feature of your computer.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx#DVDDecoder

hi friend,
That problems cure only one way. i.e., change and reboot the OS. All error are deleted.......

indicates hard drive failure

go to control panel then to the sound and devices then open it and see if the box has been check on mute if that is the case remove the check mark and press apply if not check the box place the volumen icon in the task bar and then do apply,,,this will put the spaeker icon in the battom right to the screen next to the time clock click on it and set the volumen as you desire by drag up the volumen bar rate me fixya

u have to go to control panel>phone and modem options>Modems>select modem>Properties and than in advance tab and give extra initialization command ``s=40`` and than log off your computer and than try....

That old pc used a pci card. unplug the power cord to the pc let it sit for 5 minutes. open the side panel take the 1 screw out that holds the card in place pull it out and look the model number up on google. Go to the manufactures website and download the driver for your card.

If it doesnt load in recovery mode.

failing ram or cpu over heating

Drivers and Manuals

Inside the tower under the CD Rom rack could be inverted but its a silver or black metal box mounted in a rack

You will need to reset eh BIOS, then install whatever system it will support. The Acer website will give you all the specs on the unit and all the drivers for it as well.

It may be failing, best to remove all important files ASAP, before it dies!

you need a new video card Unless an on-board video card is conflicting with the installed video card then in bios there will be a setting to select witch video card it uses. But if no vision at all need a new video card

keep start button pressed 30 seconds, the pc should turn off. If not brutally unplug the power cable. Do a scan disk on restart.

go to system BIOS and clear the log.

Right Click the little speaker - Playback Devices - double click the Speakers (if not shown then Right Click in the main box on the Playback tab - Show Disabled Devices) - on the General tab - Device Usage - Use this Device (enable)

It is inside the PC itself, somewhere on the motherboard, round cell, Nominal diameter is 20 mm, nominal height is 3.2 mm. But seems need an expert to change it.

First you have to have software. If you download a free program make sure the site is reliable. This website i use and so far so good. You need to learn how to use some of the programs being offer this is the link http://www.filehorse.com/software-cd-and-dvd-tools/.All windows include Windows Media Player. If your music files are MP3 files then knowing how to use WMP, you can create regular CD's.

The hard drive, motherboard, or some other critical component may be failing, or just the OS or hard drive corrupted. If you have files that you do not want to lose, you could try this... Pull the hard drive out, and use a "USB Hard Drive Adapter" (available fairly cheap online) to connect the hard drive to a friend's computer, and save all the personal files (documents, pictures, etc.) you can to a folder on the friend's computer or an external hard drive. That way, at least you may not lose your files. Then, you could try to do a Factory Restore or Reload on the computer, and if that works, copy your personal files back to your newly restored computer. Good luck.