My computer has died. Posting illegally from work. It's God's way of telling me to stop blogging (or to buy a new laptop?)
Okay, does this make sense to you? Getting a message saying my BIOS is not compliant with ACPI, and I need to download a new BIOS (whatever that is), but I can't do that when I can't turn the damn thing on. It tells me to turn off ACPI by pressing F7 in text setup mode - how do I get to text setup mode?
Dell worse than useless. Halp!
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Unhelpfully, I think it means it's time to buy a Mac...
Dont think anymore just buy the laptop. It's Christmas - buy it for a pressie to yourself.
Reading up on the tech forums it sounds like something that should be quick to fix - as you say, you just need to turn off ACPI. Hopefully someone will be able to help!
You're not that teacher who spent whole lessons surfing FaceBook and eBay are you? She sounds great.
When you turn it on you should hear a beep - press F7 right after this. If there's no beep then just turn it on and keep pressing F7 until it goes into a setup menu.
...have you tried turning it off an on again?
I suspect BIOS is something to do with the Operating System. I'll ask the tech bods at work here.
Quink - admit it, you work for them don't you?
Bad Sar - yes time to be decisive and stop agonising in front of shop windows.
P - I just can't get to the tech forums, bah!
Tim *laughs hollowly*. I wish I knew how she managed it.
Emordino, thanks. I'll try it.
Boz - SHUTUP.
RoMo - thanks!
Boz, I feel bad about telling you to shut up now. It was only in jest.
I called you and left a message - have nice man that knows exactly what to do and can fix it - call me x
Ah thank you - I tried Emordino's F7 trick and it booted up okay this time! Thank you, Emordino, you resurrected my computer. I'm never turning it off again, just in case.
When mine misbehaves, I just kick it. That normally does the trick. Glad you're back!
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