Top 20 Acer Aspire 1642ZWLMi Notebook Questions & Answers

Try this - look at the image - there is a indicator switch (#5) for wifi. Press the button to enable, again to disable.

yes you can but it will need todo alot of updats,and iam not sure about this but i think windows xp does not do all the updates anymore,but i could be wrong,i have a pc tower thats ten years old and i put windows xp on that just the other day and all is well.

you should have got a disc with it.if not you might try backup and restore programe,you will find this in your control panel. or you can try your upgrade disc but you might find your windows xp number may not run with the upgrade.

have you try to evaluate your paper?, sometimes when it feed your paper the printer dis-align it and cause the paper jamming during printer. Try 1 by 1 load of paper, if the problem still the same then try to load atleast 10pcs of paper. Just a thought hope it helps thanks.

have you tried to use the recovery menu in BIOS which can be accessed by typing Alt +F10 at bootup. I suppose you still need to be lucky enough to have the hidden partition X: available on the hard disk.

If not then it is back to ACER support and beg for a Recovery CD.

Good luck

Connect an external USB mouse to get at least the cursor to work, then download the latest touch pad drivers from Acer's site

Check that you have not disabled the mouse pad (FN and F7?)

If that fails, you may need to dismantle the laptop and check the small ribbon cable that connects the touch pad to the motherboard has not come adrift.

After that it looks like physical failure of the trackpad / touch pad assembly

Don't worry. It's a simple procedure. When u start up the computer, press ctrl+alt+delete twice. Then in the password box that appears, type administrator in the username and hit enter. Once you are in the administrator account, hit start, then control panel, then users then your account. Now change the password. You will only lose your msn or saved passwords for sites that you have.

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Until you can locate the underlying cause of the problem (could be mechanical, or your particular battery power configuration settings), you can try this:

Open up a command prompt window (Start Menu > Accessories > System; or, Start Menu > Click "Run" > Type cmd in the box and press enter)

Once the command prompt session has opened, type "shutdown -s" (without the quotation marks) and press enter.

You should see a box pop up warning that shut down will occur in 30 seconds. After the countdown completes, your computer should begin the shutdown routine. This command works for restarting the computer as well, just change "-s" to "-r"

If your laptop appears to boot up and the hard disk LEDflashes, then the problem is probably a back light fault. This can be a faultyinverter or a faulty CCFL lamp. Please click on this link and follow myinstructions to identify the fault and possible fix :- http://www.fixya.com/support/r3598095-faulty_laptop_lcd_screen

Hi correa_jas,

Based on your situation. I suggest trying the following steps:

1. Try to install the latest driver.

2. You can download the driver from here.

3. Select your operating system then go to Wireless LAN section.

4. After downloading install the driver and then restart your computer.

Hope it helps.

Thanksfor using FixYa

Bestregards,
Reyjoshua07

To reset the BIOS to factory settings read the information from this link, disregard the first point as that applies only to bypassing the BIOS password, the other 3 solutions not only will reset the BIOS password but will also bring the BIOS to factory settings.

u cant get sound from TV linked to PC.....as the PC's sound system use a RF connection...it does not have a amplifyer...the sound system travel in two formats....non-amplified and amplified....the sound sent from PC/Laptop it's already amplified...but the TV connector can receive only non-amplified signal(say from a DVD player, camcorder, music system etc)...it cant process the signal from PC/laptop......you can connect ordinary speakers ment for laptop to the sound out jack in the PC/laptop and use the TV to receive the video signal....from PC
hope this helps
Kris

Hi

You have to remove the CMOS battery located in your motherboard or you need to adjust the CMOS jumper of your laptop

If Acer do not have them to download online, then Win7 is not supported and you will have to return to XP. Trying Vista drivers, if available, may work as they are very similar.

The ACER recovery disks have all the programs on them. you can insert the disk and restore any that you may have deleted.
If you don't have your disks, you can download the applications from ACER's web site.

Normal 0 You could have a back light problem. This could be caused by a faulty inverter rt a faulty CCFL lamp. Please click on this link to determine the fault and possible fix :-
http://www.fixya.com/support/r3598095-faulty_laptop_lcd_screen

Just to be clear this is not a fix for screen problems, this is a fix for a problem that prevents the laptop from booting at all. The laptop would not even attempt a POST and so would not even get as far as trying to output anything to the display.

I'm no expert but just wanted to share a fix that worked for me. For me it was a problem with the laptop not coming out of hibernation properly and completely freezing, the only option was to power off. On reboot nothing would happen, the screen would not even be initialised so it is nothing to do with the screen.

I can only theorise what the problem may be. As the solution is to remove the power lead, remove the battery and hold down the power button it would seem to be an issue with the laptop retaining some residual charge which is preventing the laptop from booting. I've heard of other poeple who have managed to fix this by simply letting the battery run out and then leave it overnight, this will again dissipate any residual charge but is just a much slower way of doing it. Holding the power button down with no power sources attached will dissipate this charge and allow the laptop to boot when a power source is reattached.

Unfortunately if the laptop boots and the screen is blank then it is a different issue, if the image on the screen is faint it is most likely a problem with the backlight and in these instances this fix will not work. Before posting this I thought this was an isolated incident but there have been so many replies it would appear to be a more common issue than I thought and works on many different models, not just the DV6599 that I've tried it on

Check the sound is not muted. (Click on speaker icon at the bottom right of your screen. Move the slider all the up with your mouse. Ensure the small box is cleared) Also, right click on computer on the start menu and select hardware tab, and open the device manager. Look for sound device and right click on that. Check the drivers are ok for the sound chip you have. You may go to the Acer website if you can, locate support for your model and download and install fresh drivers for your OS if they can be found. Reply here if you try that and don't know how. You may try an external speaker / headphones connected to appropriate socket on the back of your computer if it's a desktop. If you hear sound it might be that the internal speaker has gone wrong (does your computer give one beep when you turn it on ? this is telling you most things are ok including your sound system. Open a cmd window and type 'beep' the computer should beep I think) there are many other things it might be, and more if you don't have the as-purchased set-up, but that's enough for now 7.March.2015

had that problem on a **** dell go to control panel use directional keys to get there turn on mouse adjust '

Your recovery partition seems to be corrupted.