Acer Aspire M5641 Will not boot to Windows

Oct 26, 2009

- when the computer starts up tap f8 until you get several menu options. the top option should be 'repair my computer', you should now have a very basic log in window which has your username, (if you have no password just press enter). now you should have several options of recovering or repairing your PC. the most successful so far is a normal windows restore which takes the computer back a few days, i would recommend a week to 2 weeks if available. once completed this should get rid of the 'black screen of death'. once logged on run command prompt with administrative properties then type in 'sfc /scannow' this will hoefully find anything else which is currupt. i have found the main reason for this is actually vista's own way of performing better... on most people with this problem i spoke to had an option enabled on the hard drive by default : 'Enable write caching on the disk' : 'this setting improves disk performance, but a power outage or equipment failure might result in data loss or curruption' this option can be found by going into device manager - find your primary hard drive, right click, properties, policies. this is the closest ive found to a cause of this 'black screen of death'

Oct 26, 2009

- I can,t see it being problem with power supply. Try disconnesting one drive etc. at a time and booting system and if system boots then disconnected device is where fault will be. If u disconnect main drive required to boot windows simply put install disk in drive and hit F12 on starting system and select to boot from CD. Hope this solves problem for you m8.