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Dave C

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Nuneaton, CV11


07754 563095

www.twilightsolutions.co.uk

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RE: Acer Laptop aspire 5535

To diagnose faults like this you neeed to be confident, competent and methodical. With a laptop, diagnosis is complicated by the fact that components aren't easily interchangeable. I'd be inclined to remove various components one at a time and see whether the beeps still occured or changed at all. You can remove items like all USB peripherals, all removable media, battery OR mains power, RAM (one at a time), hard disks, CD/DVD drive, integral keyboard (replace with USB). If any of these tasks seem a little adventurous for you, consider logging a request for a PCIQ Professional to come out and fix it for you.

30 May @ 17:50

RE: vista to XP

Jon I take your point about downgrade "rights" but the question was specifically asking about how simple the procedure was. There is no simple downgrade procedure, it requires a reformat and thus loss of original O/S and data.

19 May @ 21:51

RE: vista to XP

This is not quite as simple as you may hope for a number of reasons: There is no downgrade path from Vista to XP. The Vista and Windows 7 boot loaders differ from that of XP so you'll have to first backup your data then boot from the XP CD to (optionally repartition) then reformat and install XP. Your inbuilt recovery drive would likely be deleted meaning you'll be unable to re-install Vista without an installtion CD if you later change your mind. You might want to consider buying a replacement hard drive, taking this opportunity to aquire more disk space - disks are relatively cheap. You'd always then have the Vista disk to fall back on. There are other things you could try too but they'd require access to 3rd party disk partitioning tools. You can use your OEM CD and key to install XP on your laptop however it may fail activation if you've recently installed and activated using the same product key on the COA as used on your desktop.

19 May @ 21:38

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We specialise in providing an 'after 6pm' or 'weekend' service to domestic and small business customers whose computers may have decided 'not to play' as you'd like.
So, if you can no longer connect to the internet, read your email, print that document, or if your PC throws up more POPUPs than you can 'shake a stick at' let us know and we'll try our best to get you back up and running - with a smile!

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