Posted February 8, 20159 yr This unit is not booting either off the HDD or the DVD drive [trying Puppy or Knoppix], I can only get into the BIOS, F12 doesn't show any boot options at all, the boot options are only showing in the BIOS, anything I can try please?
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February 8, 20159 yr Author I swapped HDD's but it is asking me for product key using my win8 Standard disk, far as I know, all win8 key is embedded in the BIOS?
February 8, 20159 yr FPCH Admin Yes, it should be but what is on the hard drive that you swapped out? ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~~~Robert McCloskey~~
February 8, 20159 yr FPCH Admin Open notepad and put this in it: [Channel] Retail [VL] 0 Save the file as EI.cfg. Copy the file to the sources folder. There might be a file already named that in the source folder. If there is replace content with the above. What that does is lets you bypass the license key and pick which version to install. Once installed you can activate with your key. Make sure when you get to the part that asks for which version to install you install the version your key is for. Off Topic Forum - Unlike the Rest
February 8, 20159 yr Author I just contaced Acer, they said the reason why it's asking for the product key is because I am using the wrong version, what I need is win8.1 Standard 64bit.
