sounds like a hardware issue. fan is dying. Acer password protects their
Bios. you will have to contact the Acer support crew about BIOS and since
laptop is still under warranty... have them fix fan for you.
"marty" <> wrote in message
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> hi ,my sons acer laptop seems to have developed a fault,when he powers up
> after a short sime it just shuts down .sometimes it will load the os
> (vista
> hp)and sometimes it wont even get to the boot screen .i have noticed that
> the
> fan is not working ,i think this may be the problem so i need some
> clarification so i can narrow down the possible causes ,the laptop is
> still
> under warranty but if a virus is the cause then i can attempt to recover
> from
> the partition .on the rare occasion it tries to load the bios i get asked
> for
> a password which i know has never been set by me could the manufacturer
> have
> set this to protect the bios settings?
> any advise will be greatley appreciated
> --
> martyb
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