My Acer aspire 3680 doesn't boot

[Geevaro]

My acer wont boot I've set boot priority order to CDRom first and saved it laptop goes off and on again and start loading but nothing happens, there is a white stripe in the top left corner just bouncing. windows Xp , 7 and 8 cant boot ???? Pls help

 

[vnayak15]

Try booting from usb stick or external dvd drive.

 

[Geevaro]

Try booting from usb stick or external dvd drive.

Okay will try that. could there be something wrong maby if it does that?

 

[TenPc]

You have to have bootable data in the CD/DVD drve., an Upgrade OS disk won't boot, it 's done from within windows.

 

[Geevaro]

Try booting from usb stick or external dvd drive.

I took some time to try and boot from an external or usb stick it still did'nt work any other suggestions ?

 

[Geevaro]

You have to have bootable data in the CD/DVD drve., an Upgrade OS disk won't boot, it 's done from within windows.

Hi Ten
All the OS disk's I tried is Original and bootable. Mite be something else wrong which I cant Figure out. Any suggestions?

 

[TenPc]

Windows 7 and 8 OS disks are data DVD's and cannot be booted through a CD rom drive. Windows XP OS disk is a Cd so should be able to use with a CD rom but I think that Windows XP SP3 (July 2008) is a dvd data disk.

 

[Geevaro]

Windows 7 and 8 OS disks are data DVD's and cannot be booted through a CD rom drive. Windows XP OS disk is a Cd so should be able to use with a CD rom but I think that Windows XP SP3 (July 2008) is a dvd data disk.

Thanx for your response Ten
I have a DVD-rom and I tried to boot with Windows Xp, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Professional and with Windows 8 it doesn't boot and I tried through a USB flash it still doesn't boot ????? any Idea on what I can do please?
Thanx.

 

[TenPc]

Have you recently added (or removed or changed) an ram modules?
Have you accessed the ram bay at any time recently?
You may have not reseated the ram properly.

 

[Geevaro]

Have you recently added (or removed or changed) an ram modules?
Have you accessed the ram bay at any time recently?
You may have not reseated the ram properly.

I just had a look at the ram it's put in the right way. do you think it would work if I remove the cmos for a while and put it back in after about 5min?

 

[Geevaro]

Been thinking Could it be my Processor ??????? any one???

 

[TenPc]

It's a laptop, isn't it? You'd have to dismantle the entire laptop to get to the cmos battery and then have to put it all back together again, a big job that could end up making the situation worse. It's not a good idea to remove the cmos battery in a laptop.

It's not the processor, it's the cd/dvd drive or your disks that you are using. It's possible that the disk you are using are copies and when you had them burned, Multi-
Session had not been disabled prior to burning so those disk are not usable in any computer other than where they were burned.

It could also, or either, be that the disk types are one of those +r or -r formats that is different to the CD or DVD drive that might be usable without the same format type (rare but can cause read or boot errors).

Is there any hdd in the laptop?
Is there a previous OS on the hdd?
Can you access the current OS (if there is one), boot to desktop?

 

[Geevaro]

It's a laptop, isn't it? You'd have to dismantle the entire laptop to get to the cmos battery and then have to put it all back together again, a big job that could end up making the situation worse. It's not a good idea to remove the cmos battery in a laptop.

It's not the processor, it's the cd/dvd drive or your disks that you are using. It's possible that the disk you are using are copies and when you had them burned, Multi-
Session had not been disabled prior to burning so those disk are not usable in any computer other than where they were burned.

It could also, or either, be that the disk types are one of those +r or -r formats that is different to the CD or DVD drive that might be usable without the same format type (rare but can cause read or boot errors).

Is there any hdd in the laptop?
Is there a previous OS on the hdd?
Can you access the current OS (if there is one), boot to desktop?

I replaced my old Hard Drive with a new one the old one got damaged. The new one is totally empty.

 

[TenPc]

Check your bios priority, boot options should be CD/DVD disk as primary, and First boot. If you use the usb stick to boot, then you have to change the bios to show the ub device as frist boot and Primary.

You change it back to the hdd after the install is complete.

 

[Geevaro]

Check your bios priority, boot options should be CD/DVD disk as primary, and First boot. If you use the usb stick to boot, then you have to change the bios to show the ub device as frist boot and Primary.

You change it back to the hdd after the install is complete.

I've done that before, my Laptop doesn't boot it just shows the white stripe going on and off on the top left of the screen.

 

[TenPc]

The white stripe infers that there is no OS installed, you said you only had a blank hdd. "I replaced my old Hard Drive with a new one the old one got damaged. The new one is totally empty."

You have to change the boot sequence in the bios for the laptop to boot to the dvd drive or usb device so you can install the operating system.

The only type of external cd/dvd drive you can use is the one that has a power adapter and not the type that uses two usb ports for support power.

The only other thing to do is take it to a PC repair shop with your OS disk for them to install the operating system.