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Question posted by suzysomerton on December 17th, 2012

Getting Reboot Message On Start Up

my acer m3420 is one month old, windows 8, I was working away and firefox went into non response mode, tried restarting pc and now getting Reboot and seclect proper boot device message when I start up pc, what should I do?

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