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Then I suspect a failing component somewhere on the motherboard (since you said that you have already looked at the start up software). If the fault is like the ones that I have experienced, there will be a day when the boot time goes from 5 minutes to "infinite". it could happen soon, or it...

The optical drive will just slide out. There should way to eject the whole thing without cracking open the case (consult the manual). Sometimes there is an eject button/lever or a screw that keeps it from sliding out. I was thinking of just the external ports: if you have anything plugged in...

Try removing the Optical drive and booting. Does it change the boot time? Do the same thing with anything else connected, USB, eSATA, PCI cards, and so on. Unplug everything and see if you can narrow it down to a component that may be failing. There could be a faulty component on the...

You could try opening it up and re-seating the video cable. But nothing lasts forever. It may just be broken. Talk with the Acer to see what the cost of fixing/replacing it may be.

SATA (Serial ATA) is the interface, and all drives connected to your motherboard via SATA connectors will show up in the BIOS as SATA drives. The motherboard (and the bios and your applications) do not care if your drives have platters that spin or a bunch of NAND memory. Although the OS does...

The screen has a fault. It happens. Mine has a horizontal line of dead pixels. I'm just too cheap to pay to replace it. It looks ugly but does not impair your system's performance.

Check your power plan: go to - control Panel - power options - change when the computer sleeps - change advanced power settings look at the battery section, Adjust your reserve, low, and critical battery levels and what action to take for each.

A camera (with built in timer) and a tripod. Or a friend to hold the camera

Dell Alienware 17 laptops (dell.com) Features: 4th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ (6MB Cache, up to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost) Windows® 7 Home Premium (64bit) 8GB Dual Channel DDR3L at 1600MHz 750GB Hard drive video options: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 765M with 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770M with 3GB...

It almost sounds like there is a problem with the software you are using to play back the DVD. You could try repairing or re-installing that piece of software.

If you have a message saying that the hard drive is failing, then that may be the problem. If the hard drive is failing, that could account for the missing boot manager and the fact that windows can't load. Since you can't get the computer to function, you may need to take to someone that has...

I know that if I start Battlefield 3 (or 4) on a Win7 machine running an AMD video card, and then remote into the machine, the video drivers loaded for the remote session are not for the AMD GPU. The game then crashes and if I try to start it up it says that I don't have a compatible video...

No. The malware could be hiding on a USB drive, or anything that you have ever connected to your network just waiting for the chance to re-install itself. You need to have an up to date anti-virus solution in place, and even that may be no guarantee.

You have to read the laptop's manual and it will tell you what memory speeds it will support.

Do you want to use the speaker's internal crossover, or do you have an external crossover that you want to use? If you don't care, then just connect the one 'red' wire coming from the receiver to both red terminals on the speaker, and the same for black. Some bi-wired speakers come with an...