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Subject: Re: Pick of the week Acer desktop


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Brian's PC Support (??)
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Date Posted: 04:49:08 07/03/09 Fri
In reply to: C.A. 's message, "Pick of the week Acer desktop" on 11:49:58 06/04/09 Thu

How were the systems working when you brought them home preloaded with Vista?>

We bought a couple of the pick of the week Acer
>AM1641-E3750A Pentium dual core desktops.
>
>The first one had hard drive issues (bad sectors) and
>we replaced the drive.. it appeares to work fine.
>
>The second one we installed XP on the factory drive.
>It had an issue where it would just spontaneously
>reboot, which ruined the factory drive (corrupted
>index, wasn't fixed by XP chkdsk.
>
>We replaced the factory drive with a Seagate drive and
>reimaged XP onto it. Got the same issue again just
>hours later during file copy.
>
>We've replaced the power cord just in case. We might
>have plugged the one from the old computer into the
>Acer and it might have had a lower amperage rating or
>something.
>
>Still confused, brand new computers acting this
>strangely!

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