My aspire 4720 is not working, states a disk problem os preventing windows from opening. I have tried everything but nothing works, cant get on at all. Do I really need a new hardrive or is there another solution. any help most appreciated

The system cannot detect the hard disk drive. Before you start up, re insert the hard disk. Remove the memory card and clean it with soft cloth or tissue paper. After doing these..Start up your computer and see the results. If nothing happens, restart your laptop, hit F12 key & set the hard disk drive to first boot device then press the Enter key. wait till the OS comes up.

try Opening you BIOS at startup try configuring the boot preferences, make your disk containing os to first one....

webcam could not be detected, which drivers should be downloaded?

Looks like the Laptop is running some backend program which could be either a service, an application running at the stealth mode, or a driver program that seems to seize the Memmory resource allocated to the Kernal. Did you try check the system log by going to Start - Run - eventvwr.exe wherein you will find two heives namely Application and system. On the second start try to go through this event viewer which is opened as i said before and find out if you can locate any memmory related critical error or any application related critical error which lead it to a hung state and a restart registered later.

If you cant find that please boot in a safe mode and see if this is happening. It should not happen ideally speaking. Still if this is happening, try to restore the OS or run the repair disk of Acer Aspire. This should resolve the issue. Still if you cant resolve this issue its surely due to a hardware problem. I would advice you to go ahead tappering the chances of problems starting from an OS monitoring to Hardware Troubleshooting as per the steps i have explained here. Good Luck.

You can try these steps :

1. Goto Start >> Control Panel >> Sounds >> Recording.

2. Open the 'Microphone Properties' from the list of devices.

3. Change the status of 'Device Usage' to "Use this device (Enable)".

4. Apply settings and close the window.

5. If still the Microphones are not working, try to reinstall the Audio / Sound drivers. Restart your system.

please rate this advice if it helps.....tc! :)

hey what's up

pls retore ur OS like this without backup disc fast and easy just see this

When you first turn on the laptop and see the Acer logo screen, hold the ALT key and press the F10 key (you need to do this before the Acer logo disappears).

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Here's the solution to your problem

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Let me know if this solves the problem

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OMG ... i was completley distraught. i bought my ACER ASPIRE LAPTOP 6 months ago when i was trveling in italy ,im in austarlia. I use it to run my online game ; » www.themafiawarz.eu - and has all my files.

When i got the black screen o death i first am here to the boards finding nothing i was further distraught..

I AM HAPPY TO TELL YOU MY FRIENDS, that i am typing this on my lil baby

Heres what you do....

* you need usb disk drive
* a second computer with internet access (can be work cafe friends place)
* a file you can download from acer or search yourself called ZGIA32.zip

Format your drive in fat (*note i tried fat as directed in a number of manuals though then tried fat32 and it worked then though suggest you try fat first *shrug)

open zip file and copy 3309.fd and the fla.exe to the usb stick

rename 3309.fd to ZGIA32.fd

Turn off your laptop making sure that both battery and power supply is plugged in and attach the usb stik/drive.

hold down FN and ESC keys and press the power button, continue to fold FN and ESC keys for 7-10 secs then release - at this point the power light should be blinking and you should still have the black screen of death.

press the power button once while its blinking - this will initiate a bios update * DO NOT PUSH ANYTHING AFTER THIS

After 2 mins the aspire should reboot itself , wait for about 7mins if it dosent before rebooting manually

Took me three attempts as i just wasent doing something right though TA DA!!!!!

and i still have my files. yeah team take this and run, hope you havent spent money yet