Acer my laptop manufacturer tech support rep was the one who told me
this, was a bit of a shock to me, booting to CD was my first thing I did
but all attempts resulted in the system to lockup no matter which
version of Live CD Ubuntu, Fedora nothing. Before I came on this forum
I contacted Acer they would know. No the statement came from a Acer Tech
not from me. I was floored. I was hoping someone had a work around
but not so far.

I have Ubuntu on two other computers all different but works fine, but
my laptop is locked out from using Linux. I am more than pissed I can't
even install a copy of OS-X as I can on one of my desktops, even though
that is supposed to be difficult I can do it, but not on my laptop
explain that Acer has.