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  1. NeoFrux
    What. Hahaha, wow, okay then. Glad that worked? How weird! Best make a backup while you've got the opportunity just in case, but other than that, yeah, it's been a crazy ride trying to diagnose this one. You might still want to do the Memtest, and while you've got Windows up, run DiskCheckup's self-tests, all the same. Beyond that... Enjoy!
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    Well crap. Okay, then, in that case, I'll have to find something else that'll specifically work with AHCI; Maybe a Linux Live distro with SMART tools on it. Anyway, for now, go ahead and reset the boot mode setting to UEFI and move on to Memtest86. It'll take a couple of hours to properly show whether or not there's any issues with your RAM.
  3. NeoFrux
    Hello double-post. How are you today?
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    Try setting your SATA mode under the Main section of your BIOS to IDE instead of AHCI and try again; As with Legacy boot mode, you'll want to set this back to AHCI once we're done with SeaTools.
  5. NeoFrux
    For SeaTools, you'll want to go into your BIOS and change the Boot Mode under the Boot section to Legacy; You'll want to change it back to UEFI after you're done.
  6. NeoFrux
    Yes, that's just a warning to be sure that you're writing to a removable drive.
  7. NeoFrux
    You'll need to right-click on that and choose Run as administrator.
  8. NeoFrux
    Ah, right, sorry. SeaTools is a special case here; You'll need to follow these instructions instead.
  9. NeoFrux
    What file are you choosing for Rufus to use?
  10. NeoFrux
    What exactly does Rufus say? What is chosen as the format for the drive?
  11. NeoFrux
    Memtest86: 150MB SeaTools: 8.5MB
  12. NeoFrux
    Memtest86 and SeaTools for DOS can be booted like the Windows installation media can. Memtest86 can just be copied over to the flash drive and it should boot as an EFI program, and SeaTools will need Rufus or Universal USB Installer to run from a USB flash drive.
  13. NeoFrux
    That's making me think this is more a hardware issue than anything else... When you were doing troubleshooting, did you run Memtest86 and SeaTools?
  14. NeoFrux
    No, you can take the flash drive out now. This process happens entirely within the computer itself, on a separate partition of your system drive.
  15. NeoFrux
    If you choose the Restore Operating System and Retain User Data option, you won't lose all your files, but you will have to reinstall any programs you've installed.
  16. NeoFrux
    That's probably to do with the system recovery partition... Unfortunately, there's no easy way around this one without wrecking the recovery partition. It may be best to just restore Windows via Acer's recovery menu (hold ALT and press F10 at the Acer splash screen).
  17. NeoFrux
    You're going to want to say All to that.
  18. NeoFrux
    Scary indeed... Something isn't grounded properly. Hopefully they can troubleshoot it more effectively with spare parts, and hopefully nothing else got zapped.
  19. NeoFrux
    Memtest86 can be placed onto a USB flash drive as an EFI-bootable program, while SeaTools you'd need to either burn or create a USB boot drive using Rufus or Universal USB Installer and set your BIOS to boot in Legacy mode rather than UEFI.
  20. NeoFrux
    I would first run Memtest86 to be sure the RAM is actually good, and I'd check the hard drive with SeaTools for DOS afterwards to be sure it's above board, too. Then I'd go ahead with the Windows reinstall if everything checks out.
  21. NeoFrux
    I noticed that as well. My inclination is to do up a few different scripts on different topics and pick the best of them to send along, and since I've got a rough script done already, I don't imagine it will take very long to do. But with no deadline, I'm not sure how much time I should take to polish it.
  22. NeoFrux
    Yup. Working on my script now. ... I wonder how many people made it past round 1?
  23. NeoFrux
    At this point yes, because the solution wasn't permanent and that might be misleading to others who come looking for a solution in the future.
  24. NeoFrux
    No bother, that might be a fun idea if there's anything that could be considered interesting enough to vlog about. Maybe behind-the-scenes work? That said, this topic in particular is about their recruitment video, so you might not get the right sets of eyeballs for it if that makes sense.
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    I'm not sure on either of those, I was hoping that using a different display might help diagnose the issue. We've already stepped through a lot of troubleshooting, so at this point it seems like it's a problem with either the GPU or the monitor. Just to be sure though, one last thing you could try on the software side would be to check the refresh rate and make sure that it's not some weird value (should either be 59Hz or 60Hz).
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