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Installing 7 on Acer Aspire 5315
A friend has asked me to install Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop.
No problem I said
I set the boot order to boot from disk and put the disk in.
Instead of the expected "press any key to continue" I get a black screen with "select CDROM boot type:_" with a flashing cursor.
I'd never seen this before but I attempted to type in "normal"- a guess- and it seems I have no keyboard input at all. I tried all the letters and numbers plus Fkeys and nothing.
I cannot type anything in.
I than tried ctrl/alt/del and this ended the process but that seems to be the only key combination working.
I'm wondering if it's because I'm trying to put x64 W7 on a Vista x86 laptop and some kind of EFI protection is kicking in.
Any ideas would be most welcome