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Insert the original "System Restore" CD/DVD disk.
Restart the computer, and tell it to boot from the disk, rather than booting from the usual 'C:' drive. Click to reinstall Windows, from "scratch'.
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CPU speed is not going to make much of a difference. You need to increase RAM (random access memory). This will make a huge difference in speed performance.
Hope you were not updating a wrong BIOS, I can see from their support center, there is no available update BIOS for Acer Travelmate 270..See here for details.
Well u can try to format the drive and load a fresh copy of the operating system. When its using short term memory to dump its boot errors then its never a good sign. Viruses cause this most often but a bad sector on the hard drive itself will also do this. If after you format the drive and still it does this then its time for a new hard drive.
The official upgrade slot is located on the bottom of the laptop and is
easy to find. Just unscrew the small cover and there it is.
The other slot requires you to unscrew the two screen bracket screws.
Once you have done this, between ESC and F1, F4 and F5 and F12 and
PrtSc there are small plastic rings. Put a biro nib into these and pull
down. They will pop down. You can now remove the plastic cover.
Unscrew the two screws marked "L9" on the bottom of the laptop which
are located at the top of the memory cover. Now you can remove the
keyboard. Underneath the keyboard is the second RAM slot. The SiS 650
chipset supports a max of 1GB per memory slot and since this laptop has
two slots that means 2GB of RAM. I've used Kingston DDR400 PC 3200
SODIMMS.
You can also upgrade the CPU - the fastest CPU available is the
Pentium-M 2.6GHz. Nothing faster will work - trust me on this. It must
be a Pentium 4 Northwood architecture CPU with a 400MHz FSB. Standard
P4 Northwood CPUs with the metal shim won't fit - unless you know a way
of removing the shim without destroying the CPU. Best to stick with a
Pentium mobile (Pentium 4 M) chip. Look on Ebay for these.
Of course the hard disk can also be upgraded - a 200GB 7200RPM 2.5" drive works a treat. Non SATA of course.
You can add wireless and USB 2.0 using PCMCIA carbus cards. I use a
StarTech 54mbps wireless card with the RAlink chipset and a NEC USB 2.0
card with 4 USB ports. Both cards fit in at the same time.
I had the same problem and it was my battery - i would strongly suggest getting a new one, doesnt need to be an ACer - it could even be a generic one- just as effective.Try www.cellphoneshop.net, they sell cheap batteries.
Caution is advised, as getting everything to work again after you put it back together is normally difficult, especially the screen.
You will have to remove all the panels underneath, all screws and look for screws around the screen hinge area, with hexagon heads.
There are no instructions on acer notebooks on their site for obvious reasons.
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