alt+F10 command issue:acer: Solved

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Hi everyone, I have a problem. I read in the Acer user manual that if you want to restore to factory settings, you need to press Alt + F10 when the Acer logo appears, but nothing happens for me. Please help!!! Oh, and I have an Acer Aspire 1640. Thanks in advance!

zikos_snake · Accepted Answer

D'accord ferasas, je vais faire de mon mieux !!
Avant de commencer, assurez-vous que vous avez toujours la partition cachée, pour cela cliquez droit sur poste de travail => gérer => gestion de disque. S'il y a une partition qui se nomme PQSERVICE alors vous pouvez continuer sinon, désolé, il vous faudra les CDs !!
Je commence si vous avez la partition :
1) Téléchargez le logiciel PTEDIT32 ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/PTEDIT32.zip
2) Lancez le logiciel PTEDIT32, dans la ligne n°1 dans Type, vous verrez le numéro 12, changez-le avec le numéro 07, vous faites enregistrer et redémarrez
3) Là, je crois que si vous allez dans le poste de travail, la partition cachée aura apparu, accédez à la partition et faites une recherche pour les deux fichiers : "mbrwrwin" et "rtmbr.bin", si vous les trouvez, copiez-les dans la racine C :
4) Là, vous redémarrez pour lancer le mode sans échec "faites F8 avant le lancement de Windows" et choisissez "invite de commande en mode sans échec".
5) Attendez que ça charge, après la fenêtre de commande apparaît, faites "C :" pour revenir à la racine si vous n'y êtes pas, puis faites "mbrwrwin install rtmbr.bin".
6) Enfin, c'est terminé, maintenant vous pouvez à nouveau formater votre PC seulement en appuyant simultanément sur ALT + F10 au démarrage du PC dans le logo Acer ! Mais attention, dès que vous faites la manipulation, il n'y a pas moyen de revenir en arrière !!!

J'espère avoir pu vous aider !!

Neonuxy · Answer

Press Alt+F10 multiple times during startup. If it does not launch the recovery utility, you can access it from Windows. In the Start menu, you should find Acer eRecovery in the Acer utilities and be able to perform the restoration.

Good luck!

zikos_snake · Answer

Sorry for the delay
The reason that forces me to reset the factory settings is that I have a few small problems such as: "Unable to activate the built-in numeric keypad with the Fn key (unexpected results like Fn+U gives left arrow instead of 4) and the Windows I installed is SP1 while the one I originally had was SP2.
As for the Acer eRecovery software, it is properly installed, I downloaded it from the official Acer website.
The noise occurs at startup, where the Acer logo appears before Windows, and it doesn't come from the hard drive, it sounds like several "little" ones.
Finally, I bought my PC from an authorized reseller and not from a large store, and it's been about 8 months.

And I apologize for bothering you.

SpyKiller · Answer

Alt F10 when it prompts you to press F12 to enter Setup and it works.  Personally, I tested it and there's no problem, good luck!

younes619 · Answer

Appuyer sur ALT+F10 plusieurs fois au démarrage pour réinstaller votre Windows, je vous assure que ça fonctionne très bien. Je le fais à chaque fois que j'ai un problème grave (virus, etc.).

kikirpg · Answer

I have the same issue, I formatted C to reinstall Windows because my ALT F10 doesn't work either. Is there a way to restore from Windows? Because the hidden partition from Acer is indeed there....

zikos_snake · Answer

Sorry for the delay, but while searching the web I found this site, it is in English, but it will definitely help you.  http://forum.notebookreview.com/

ferasas · Answer

Hello and thank you very much for your message.
However, I'm not very experienced in computer science; could you explain to me step by step, clearly indicating where each step is and how to proceed?
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

ferasas · Answer

Hello,
thank you for your precision
I checked and I found this file but the problem is I can't download the software because when I try to install it, it gives this message: error the specified file is not found cannot create C/
Please can you help me,,,,?????

blondin777 · Answer

Under Vista or XP?  --  Knowledge is only wealth if it is shared PS: No more answers in SMS language - Please provide the brand of the PC

zikos_snake · Answer

sorry blondin777, I'm on XP Home

for frasas, also sorry I didn't copy the link correctly, then I wanted to edit my post but I'm not good at forum stuff, enough rambling, here's the link:
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/PTEDIT32.zip
and for the error I didn't understand well, could you please explain it better?

razmoket · Answer

Is this method able to let me reinstall the factory settings of an ACER 9410 laptop that is stuck at the Windows startup? The only thing I can get are error messages, or by pressing Alt F10 it offers me the factory settings which are locked by a password that I do not know and which has been forgotten, or the recovery via CD or DVD which was not done.
I therefore wish to reinstall the factory settings to solve the startup problem and do a cleanup with an antivirus

Help please...

zikos_snake · Answer

Yes, I think it will work if you haven't deleted the partition. For the default password, it is: 000000

blondin777 · Answer

Hi.

Tell me Razmoket, when did you buy your ACER 9410?
Are you on Vista? If so, did you install the Vista upgrade DVD that came with the laptop?
Have you tried your session password if you have one?
--

Knowledge is only wealth if it is shared

razmoket · Answer

purchased about a year ago.

it's not mine but a friend's, we tried the password he remembers but nothing works and even 000000 so I don't know how to proceed further other than dismantling it and putting it on my tower as a slave drive but that requires a disassembly that I don't know how to do on a laptop, plus I need an adapter cable to power this drive from a tower.

Does anyone know the reference for this cable and where I can buy it if I go for this disassembly solution and connect it to the tower.

Because I don't even know if the drive works since it doesn't manage to access the disk at startup.

help thanks

blondin777 · Answer

What is the password that he remembers?  --  Knowledge is only wealth if it is shared

razmoket · Answer

His login password, which is not the one required for factory reset, because I tried it but it doesn't work. How can I bypass this password that is blocking the factory reset process?

blondin777 · Answer

Try his session password in qwerty.  --  Knowledge is only wealth if it is shared

razmoket · Answer

How to switch to QWERTY when I can't have Windows?

blondin777 · Answer

Click on my username and send me a personal message.  I will transcribe your password in QWERTY format via personal message as well.  --  Knowledge is only wealth when it is shared

yellas · Answer

Hello Razmoket, even if you manage to put the hard drive on a tower in slave mode, afterwards when you put it back on the laptop you can't install anything because I read somewhere that Acer makes second-degree hard drive tattoos, so it's impossible to install another OS without formatting. And for that, you need the installation discs that you can order from the Acer website (I'm not very sure) but still give it a try.

HardBlues · Answer

Thank you very much to zikos_snake for the very precise information, which helped me assist a friend.

brice · Answer

Hello everyone, is it true that alt f10 only works 10 times?

zikos_snake · Answer

With great pleasure HardBlues, happy to have helped :-)

lta · Answer

ok, same problem; and the solution is that you have to type admin, on a qwerty keyboard (:-)  admin is given by the hint/help of the message, and on a French keyboard, it gives qd,in

beyedpeas · Answer

Hello everyone I have a big problem. I bought my computer in August it's an Acer Aspire, running Vista the thing is, when I was on it yesterday, a message popped up titled "doskeys", and we could only click OK, but it kept coming back. Then all of a sudden, my computer turned off. This morning I turn on my CPU, the blue light comes on but my screen (which works on another computer) displays "no signal" I called Acer: they advise me to press Alt Gr + F10 nothing works I really don't know what to do thank you for helping me, I have all my course materials on it and I think I've already lost everything.

jason59370 · Answer

Hello, I restarted after putting 07 in the type box of line 1 (for me it was 27 and not 12), and since then the PC boots into Acer eRecovery Management. It gives me 3 options, but the first 2 are grayed out, leaving me with only the third option: Exit. As a result, it restarts and goes back to the Acer eRecovery Management, creating a vicious circle. I inserted a Ubuntu CD to boot from live CD or something, but it doesn't work. I modified the BIOS to boot from the CD, but that didn’t change anything... Please help me because I’m on the PS3 now and it’s not ideal for researching such a delicate issue. Thank you in advance.

noure · Answer

No need to activate the numeric keypad to enter the 000000, it should be left deactivated and you should press the 0 key 6 times.

Asuryan · Answer

Hello  Actually, I have more or less the same problem. My TravelMate 8200 had quite a few issues, and a reinstallation from ALT F10 was no longer working. (That is to say, I always had lots of errors. The thing is, the recovery utility only performs a quick format. So, I used a Windows XP CD to do a full format of the C drive in FAT32. The problem now is that ALT + F10 doesn't work anymore. If I install Windows from my other computer, there are no errors (so the solution was indeed the full format). I still have my hidden partition, I transferred both files to C and entered the command... except that after that, nothing works anymore. Before Windows starts, about ten strange characters appear, but I can't do anything else. (This happens even if I don't press ALT-F10. So, the only solution is to format again... Is there a solution to reactivate ALT-F10 without it doing that??

Asuryan · Answer

Finally, I created a small 200MB partition on which I installed Linux. It's the only way I found to recover the recovery partition. Everything works wonderfully. The only downside is that now, if I remove Linux, the computer only boots to the recovery partition... This is annoying because in that case, it reinstalls everything at each startup. So I left Linux... I have a menu that appears at each startup allowing me to choose between starting the reinstallation, starting Windows, and starting Linux. I have set Windows as the default choice after 3 seconds... It works very well and at least I'm sure I can easily find the hidden partition in the future :P

Luka69 · Answer

Hello, I have an Acer Aspire 7720. During startup, it doesn't go past the green bar with "Microsoft Corporation" written underneath. I want to reset it to factory settings, but the Alt + F10 method doesn't work... what should I do?

nicole · Answer

Hi, it's worse, I can no longer access a session on my Vista computer, and every time it asks me for the following action: CTRL+ALT+Del, and it tells me to restart your computer. I don't understand why I can't do anything anymore. Please help me.

Xenax · Answer

Hello, I have an Acer 5733 and when I press the Alt F10 command at startup, a high-pitched sound (beep beep beep) is heard and my computer shuts down... I recently had a problem where my PC shuts down and restarts continuously (the logo appears and shuts down instantly)...  If anyone knows about this issue, please share the solution with me  Thanks in advance :)

Alt+F10 command issue:acer:

Hi everyone, I have a problem. I read in the Acer user manual that if you want to restore to factory settings, you need to press Alt + F10 when the Acer logo appears, but nothing happens for me. Please help!!! Oh, and I have an Acer Aspire 1640. Thanks in advance!

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