Battery- Will boot without battery, freezes with...

It sounds like your computer's battery settings are messed up. First, check your battery settings. Perhaps they are somehow set to put your computer to sleep when battery power comes on. If that's not the problem, go to device manager, open batteries, and look at the properies of everything there to be sure all is working. If nothing appears wrong, update or replace the drivers from your manufacurer's website if available there. It looks like you have an Acer--I know thatthey have some battery recalls out. Let me know how it goes. If you are in warranty, get help from Acer: Acer's basic service availability period, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (CST), Monday through Friday. Acer Customer Service at (800) 816-2237. If you get someone who says to reintall everything instead of addressing your problem itself, demand to speak to a supervisor (this happened to me) who knows what's what.

BTW, Computer companies like to sell you expensive batteries. You must always remove your battery while you are plugged in, or you will greatly reduce its lifetime of about 300 or so full charges. Also, to break a new battery in properly, so thatit will take a full charge, charge it for at least 15 hours, then let it completely drain and recharge 3 times. (that's in your Acer manual.) let me know what happens.