I am trying to help a friend re-format and reload the factory settings.
Acer Aspire 5610 laptop.
Still works on Vista and function properly most of the time. Not totally crashed.
Typically, recovery CD\DVDs are bootable, so insert dvd then power on the rest is history.
These are things that I tried, but failed.
1. Shut down, then at power up, presses F2 to access BIOS to boot from DVD. Direction was to press F2 when Acer logo showed, but only Windows logo then proceeded to load Vista.
2. Same thing except pressed F12 (maybe F2 was not correct). Same result..kept loading Vista.
3. tried Alt-F10, but kept loading Vista.
4. tried eRecovery management in Acer. When asked to insert DVD then click yes to format, laptop shuts down and nothing happens.
5. Just for kicks, tried F8 for safe mode menu. Again kept loading Vista in normal mode.
Sometimes right after power on, when function key is pressed, laptop stops loading Vista. Power light is on but nothing happens??
Under each try, laptop totally ignored any attempts to access BIOS and proceeded to load Vista.
as I said, some computer have bootable recovery DVDs. But apparently for ACER BIOS must be accessed first.
So, either entire functions keys are bad (unlikely), or ???
Any ideas ??
Thanks,