| U can boot your OS by simply shutting it off........wait about 45 secs and then start it again. | 2 gibbsdesign, on Dec 25, 2008 10:23:00 pm GMTJust got it today and after using it for a few hours it locked up. Tried rebooting and it didn't work. HELP!! | 3 passer-by, on Dec 25, 2008 11:04:42 pm GMTI was looking at a similar problem yesterday. Still don't have a permanent fix, but for us we can get USB devices to work for the current boot by doing the following:
restart/boot into the bios (hit F2 early in boot) and then exit the bios (don't make any changes... just exit discarding changes). The computer will finish booting, and this time USB should work.
unfortunately, it seems to stop working again on next boot.
For us, things were working fine for a while. I suspect that Vista's auto-update around 12/11/08 broke it. Hopefully the next one will fix it again.
Hope that helps. | 4 Rod, on Feb 20, 2009 2:05:50 am GMTEr... how do you press F2 if the keyboard does not work?
Actually if you google 'defective acer 5100 keyboard' you will get 8.640 hits... the only partial solution is buying a 'pcmcia to usb' adapter and connect a usb keyboard to it.
This 5100 symptom includes:
- usb has power but no data traffic
- keypad does not respond
- keyboard does not work, not even in boot up, POST, DOS, LINUX, nothing.
- Don't bother to reinstall the OS because thats not the cause. Won't work.
Beside that partial solution (pcmcia adapter) you may remove the HD and attach it to a external USB carry-on to download your personal data to another PC.
Acer is aware of this, but a recall is out of question, if they cared about you they would have done something earlier. Next time pay a little more for a serious product... I am typing this with my Acer 5100 Bl51 stripped down here at my desk... last Acer in my life! | 5 jct, on Mar 8, 2009 1:58:35 pm GMTTake the battery out and run it on ac power. | 6 barny543, on Mar 30, 2009 4:36:21 pm BSTI have spoke to acer and if you plug in a seperate usb keyboard and mouse you should be able to use the cursor, now restore your computer and this should give you your keyboard back. Once the keyboard is working again hold down the button on the bottom left side of your keyboard marked FN and press f7.
all should be well....... until the next time, sony's the way forward for me now i think! | 7 plan9, on Apr 11, 2009 8:21:44 pm BSTI had the same exact problem. I tried holding the power down and restarting, taking the battery out and booting from the PS, holding down the esc + cntrl .... basically everything under the sun that you will find in this forum or others about this problem (which is common!). I even bought a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card and tried that (anyone wanna buy it?)
Here's how I fixed mine...
first off, after i tried everything, I gave up! Then I took the HD out to copy data before scrapping the laptop. I noticed that when I would plug the laptop into my desktop at work I would get a error about there being to much positive charge on the USB device (I have a USB dongle for 2.5" drives). I tried it on my laptop and it would cause it to reboot whenever I plugged it in. So I tried to boot the Aspire with out the HD, and was happily surprised that the keyboard functioned fine!! I replaced the HD, reinstalled windows, and I am loading the drives now.
To anyone whois has the same proble, take a second before you spend any money, and pop the HD out of the laptop. Then see if you can access the bios when booting... if you can, then you know that your keyboard is fine and that you have a bad HD on your hands.
Good luck!! |
| 9 nelcabz, on Jun 26, 2009 7:16:57 am BSTExcellent tip. thank you for sharing to us. my acer mouse now works excellent! |
| 17 CaptainPixie, on Oct 7, 2009 1:21:44 am BSTYour info on the mouse track problem was SO helpful, thank you so much! I was freaking out about something so stupid and dumb! |
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