Re: Acer TravelMate 2350/4050 series laptop
Originally Posted by
Pesta
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Sorry I've been so long getting back Mark and Ted and thank you both for your input, not forgetting Meg too
Thank you Marty, you're a good lad. I've done as you suggested in your first post and I'm in.
Now, hope you can make sense of my ramblings here and questions ......
I was flummoxed when the page 'Press F2 for set up' kept appearing. When I did press it, it brought up a page I've never seen before and meant nothing to me.
I was expecting to see the usual page where 'safe mode' etc is (ie if I'd pressed F8).
I then figured each OS and different make of computers each had their own 'F' number. I worried if I pressed F8 instead of F2 as it was telling me to, I'd make everything worse.
Googling and watching Youtube sites were not really helpful, basically because as you say, it's all in what you put into Google. I was getting info about 'changing your
password'. One site suggested press 'power and delete together'. It's all so confusing for a dork.
An old Vista laptop I use for games now, suffered with black screen (or maybe it was the blue screen) many years ago and I think I had to press F10 to get into 'safe 'mode'. The one I'm using now, Windows 8 went into black or blue screen and stuck in a loop (if I could get in) so as I say I had to get JL to sort that out. I know I need to press F8 for 'safe mode' on this one. (Clever devil aren't I?
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Anyway, I'm in the Acer now thankfully, but it will only let me in if I press F8 and go to 'last known good configuration'. Is it ok to do this regularly? How do I get it back to normal, or will that be too 'techy' for a computer dork?
I've retrieved the majority of the photos, onto two memory sticks, I've one more memory stick but not sure it will take them all. I'll get on with that another day.
Incidentally, I have the two discs for reinstalling but I'm not keen on getting involved with all that and I think I read things could go belly up.
Can I also ask (and please bear in mind I am a dork) is the F2 page in the 'BIOS'(??) ie the same area you get into by pressing F8?
F8 is commonly used, during boot up for getting into the BIOS.(usually achieved by rapidly tapping the key once you have told the PC to restart. You are offered safe mode, in there)
Not all PCs use it for this, some use the delete key instead..
The BIOS is a small storage area where the PC keeps information about what the built in bits are, where to boot from, what memory there is, etc.
Bios is kept alive, all the time, by a small built in battery (usually). If the battery goes flat, all sorts of Boot problems can occur.
You can usually tell if the battery is going flat by seeing if you can read the time, on the bottom right of your screen. If the battery is going, or gone, the time will keep going badly wrong. If the time looks wrong the battery is the first thing to think about.
Some are easy to change - others are NOT.
Here's how F keys get used(Double click on this):-
https://www.simplemost.com/a-definit...1-f12-keys-do/
Hope this helps.