Acer Aspire 5050 - Unable To Boot PLEASE HELP.

Press F8

Select Booting Device

All Acer laptops at the moment use a combo key use.

Boot laptop and at the Acer BIOS screen press Alt+F10 (keep tappin F10 while keepin finger on Alt).

Sounds like the HAL.DLL problem that I have with my Aspire One.
Try booting off a genuine Windows XP disc and choosing the 'recovery console' option. At the command line, type 'CHKDSK C:' and press Enter. If you're lucky, that will do the trick.

George,
Please press F8 at bot up and then select Safe Mode to boot into. Once booted, Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Restore. Here select an earlier date to restore to The available dates would be in bold numerals. You laptop will reboot as a process of restore. Then you can boot in normal mode.

If you have a VGA cable and a monitor, attempt to plug this into a monitor to verify that the laptop will not boot into your OS (Windows generally). If it does end up booting into your OS, then it sounds like your LCD has died or become unplugged inside the laptop.

That is Very hot -i think you have probably burnt out your motherboard - I hope you have insurance otherwise its time for a new PC.

You'll need to setup the Acer laptop to boot from CD-ROM. Push either the F2 or F10 button when booting your laptop and it should bring-up the configuration management interface. Go through the options and confirm that Boot From CD-ROM is at the top of the list on bootable devices.

Next, you'll need your original Windows XP CD that came with the Laptop. Put it in the CD-ROM Drive and reboot your laptop. You will be given two options: 1) Re-install Windows or 2) Repair the existing Windows Installation. I recommend that you repair the existing Windows Installation as this will not destroy and data or device drivers that are install on the laptop.

Good Luck!

The bios beep codes indicate the video card is not working, so you won't see anything on the screen.

Your video card is either dead, or is not contacting the board correctly.
If you are keen to open it up I will offer instructions to assist you. But in reality, your safest bet is to take it to a laptop shop and get them to do it. There are a lot of tiny screws in these things.

first try to locate the memory of your laptop, get it and insert it back to the socket. then, turn back on your laptop again.note please remove the power adapter and the battery before doing anything to your laptop for security reasons only.if it doesn't work just contact an expert technician to check your laptop, maybe there are some components that are not functioning.

sounds like it's not booting..do you have the install CD?