Abet Computers
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Alright so i received this Acer Aspire V5 windows 8.1 machine in the shop this morning It was noted that it was running really slow and had popups ( normal malware issue ) I started up the computer held shift and reset to boot into the Windows 8 boot settings ( selected boot to UEFI settings so I could change the BIOS to boot to USB since selecting that option in the Windows boot selection failed. So again I select boot to UEFI and it does so, inside the BIOS I change it to legacy it asks to restart t o take affect (DONE I plug in my PC Doctor USB and it loads right up to booting off the USB. Run The hardware tests everything passes ( I go and pull out the USB and restart ( and it just keeps doing a boot loop ( it will not load back into the BIOS ( F2) and it just comes up to the screen saying Operating System Not Found ) this is because it keeps trying to look for a USB but i cannot change it because I am unable to load the BIOS back up.
Does anyone have any suggestions??
I had to take out the hard drive, and toss in a tester drive, install windows back on it ( or you could do WinPE ) and flash the BIOS ( this reset it back to UEFI
Does anyone have any suggestions??
I had to take out the hard drive, and toss in a tester drive, install windows back on it ( or you could do WinPE ) and flash the BIOS ( this reset it back to UEFI
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