Acer Inspire 3500 Accessing The Bios

[corsavandal]

does anyone know how to access the bios on this series of laptop?

my friend has one thats crammed with viruses and wants to factory restore it. Ive found somewhere thats say's to hit ALT + F10 on the white acer screen when its loading but its not working.

I've tried CTRL+ALT+DEL, CTRL+ALT+ESC, F10 on its own and non of them work. Can anyone on here help?

[boddamloon]

I have had loads of Acers and most of the newer ones have reovery installations built in so its quite simple to do it once your in to bios. If i remember right as soon as it fires up keep pushing F2

[corsavandal]

that takes me to the 'setup' options like chosing which drive to boot from first etc.

ill have another look though.

[redz_UK]

does anyone know how to access the bios on this series of laptop?

my friend has one thats crammed with viruses and wants to factory restore it. Ive found somewhere thats say's to hit ALT + F10 on the white acer screen when its loading but its not working.

I've tried CTRL+ALT+DEL, CTRL+ALT+ESC, F10 on its own and non of them work. Can anyone on here help?

try del or f8 whilst loading.. juast keep tapping one of em until loaded or you get into the bios..

normally works for me on any pc/laptop!

[corsavandal]

thanks guys.

got it sorted in the end. There's a bit of recovery software in windows that i used and it sorted it.