Hello Eveyone,
A few days ago I had a thread up in which asking for assistance with my laptop. The problem was the no matter which internet browser I would use (IE, Chrome, Opera) the system would either lockup, become non-responsive requiring a re-boot or I would bet the "blue screen of death. The comuter is an Acer Laptop with 3 gigs of memory and Windows 7. The computer is about a year and 1/2 old and I have had no problems until now. I finally informed the thread that I thought that I had the problem solved and Oprea appeared to be working the way it should. Well, I spoke too soon for not long after the same problems were happening.
Fed up with the whole thing I said screw it and decided to restore the computer to the way it came from the factory. I have restore discs which I purchased from Acer (more on that in a minute) but decided to restore the computer from the hard drive as there is a utility that does it on the computer and all of the files and software needed were on the “D” drive, a partition of the “C” drive. I restored it and it took about 2 minutes of using IE to realize that the problem was stil there?! WTF!!! How can it still be there? I am now thinking that it has to be hardware related, but then how can it be? It only happens when I am using the internet with a browser (it doesn’t happen say when using iTunes to download songs). Well…
I think, perhaps maybe the information on the D partition is corrupted somehow so I go through my desk drawers and find the restoration CD’s that I ordered from Acer and start the restore process … or so I think. The restore process goes as it should for about 2% of the installation and the progress bars show 2% complete and 69% on the current file it is loading. At this point the CD drive is making noise (louder than when it read the rest of the disc) and the noise keeps going and going and nothing is happening. This goes on for 1/2 an hour with no change in noise or progress bars I terminate the installation. I try it again from the beginning and get to the same point with the same result. Great, the disc must be bad. I take it out and examine it and there appears to be no damage or scratches on the disc. I used these disc once before to restore the computer and it worked fine then. So of course at this point I am ready to explode, as I have spent a few hours on the thing and haven’t gotten anywhere.
So, at this point I say fuck it I will just install Windows XP. I have a copy that I purchased a few years ago and is not installed on anything so I might as well use it. I get it out of the box, pop it into the cd drive and start the install. Everything is going just peachy until I get to the part where the installation screen says “now testing your hardware”. At that point the stupid &^(&^^** computer powers OFF! Just shuts down and stays down. This is not a planned shut down on XP’s fault, no message that shutdown is happening and no auto-reboot. Just shuts right the fark down. I manually restart the computer and it looks like the install is going to continue. The XP program asks me to “press any button to boot from CD”, it then says “installing files”, then the “testing your hardware” message comes up and ARGGGGGGGG the stupid %&$#(#(# computer SHUTS DOWN AGAIN.
Now, by this time I am FOAMING at the mouth and so P.O’d I can’t even talk straigh. What in the every loving he** is going on? Is my stupid computer a brick now unless I pay Acer for a SECOND set of restore disc or pop a few hundred for a new copy of Windows 7? Is this a hardware problem of some kind, speaking of the origional problem, and if so how can it only affect the computer when I am using a browser? Why won’t XP install properly? It should install in a Windows 7 compter, right? Will John and Sue marry? Will Superman be able to save Earth? Why is my life such a pain in the ass sometime?:smack:
Thanks in advance for all your help. To you Mac users, as I asked in my previous thread please no “You should get a Mac because they rulz dude” comments. I don’t have a Mac and unless you are buying me one I don’t need the comment. I am not trying to be a jerk, but these threads never seem to happend without it developing into a PC vs. Mac debate. It isn’t helpful. In the meantime I am going to go hug Gunner the Great Dane to calm me down.