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I recently was asked to solve an issue my mother-in-law had with her ACER Aspire T310 desktop. The PC would not boot. I replaced all components one-by-one with parts from my PC and found the motherboard was at fault. I ordered her a new motherboard and installed it. When booting the PC i was presented with an error message saying windows did not start properly and offering me various startup options: safe mode/last known good config etc. No matter what i chose it would not work (pc would reboot and go to same screen). I tried using the OEM recovery CD and booting from that but it just came up with an error message stating "that this was not an acer system". I connected my win 2k hDD and booted from that, then formatted her HDD. Now when i try to boot from the OEM disk i get the same message "this is not an acer system". I am assuming the recovery CD knows what type of motherboard it used to have and is looking for that. Please can someone help as she is getting impatient and we all know what women are like (especially Mother-in-laws!!) Cheers Matt