Acer sucks
So I got my Acer notebook (1+ years) then a couple of months ago the sound device suddenly cease to work and cannot be detected or something. So I sent to the school’s computer technician and they were not able to fix it.
“Probably sound chip spoil, send to Acer.”
Then after what seems like thousands of attempts (”Sorry, all our engineers are busy. Your call is valuable to us.”) I finally got through their tech support line and arranged an engineer to come down.
The Acer guy came down my house and he couldn’t point out the problem.
“Could be sound chip spoil, I bring back to Acer confirm for you.”
Few days later, he confirmed it was that the sound chip was damaged. However, they were out of stock for that particular model and so he returned my notebook and promised to inform me when new stock arrives.
After like more than 1 month, I finally got his phone call and he came over to my house once again and he replaced the sound chip and voilà !
The sound still DIDN’T WORK.
Obviously he made an incorrect diagnosis previously but of course he didn’t admit, he suddenly changed his stance;
“Could be software corrupted, you backup data and do recovery.”
And that’s it. Suddenly the responsibility of fixing my Acer notebook lies on me.
My notebook got all this important school software that will take forever to reinstall and all so I’m just wondering aloud, what other possibilities are there? What else can be wrong?
ps: I ♥ YY.
Acers sucks, yes…
But it’s somehow the more powerful laptops among my classmates… LOL!
Anyway, if you have few partitions on your HDD, then move your files to the other partitions like D or E. Then use the recovery disk on C drive. I reformatted my laptop and everything is intact except the programs…
Good luck!
Another option is to download a linux distribution like suse. Get the iso (CD) version so you just cut it into a CD. Cut the iso file into a CDR.
These are perfect for evaluating linux since nothing can be saved back into the CD-Drive. They boot from the CD drive and would not touch your main disk partition. You can test your sound card after the linux is booted.
straydog, that sounds too cheem for me.
ah lim…you shouldn’t have turn back to the dark side…:D
Can’t you see I’m being forced jim!?
What a wonderful technician. Wrong diagnose, then still can say, “COULD BE software corrupted…” and push the responsibility to you!
Here’s how to do it.
Step 1: Buy a new laptop.
Step 2: Don’t choose Acer.
Step 3: You’ve got out of the dark side!
If you’re a pitiful broke soul like me, you could just ask a friend to help you… for free. xDD
Alvina my friend will you help me…for free?
LOL, my school helpdesk can only tell u … …
sorry i cant help u, reformat.
WTF?! Your school helpdesk’s just too lazy. HA.
Mr Lim, you weren’t from a debate team right? Your definition of friend seems to be from YOUR dictionary.
I’m merely an acquaintance, who is gullible, lovable and loves her pickles!
WE’RE FRIENDS. You were saying something about being gullible right?