Hi,
The problem is not the hardware but basically a driver that is corrupt. The graphcs driver thats crashing is one for nVidia, the fix for this is an easy one.
Restart the laptop and repeatedly tap the F8 key. This should take you to an advanced boot options screen. Use the cursor key to navigate to Safe Mode and hit the enter. The computer will start up using basic display drivers so the nVidia drivers won't load and crash the machine.
When the comuter has booted right click on My Computer (XP) Computer (Vista) and select manage from the sub menu.
When the window pops up select Device Manager.
A
device list will populate. When it has look down the list for Display
Adapters. Click on the + icon next to Display Adapters to it expands.
Right click on the
display adapter
and select uninstall.
Restart the computer and let it boot in normal mode.
If it
boots
in normal mode let it detect the Display and install the drivers for it.
I would be a good idea to update the display drivers via the Acer
Support
website or perform a Microsoft update and see if there any updated drivers for the nVidia graphics.
Regards.
i was going to try that but they dont work outside the OS either so when its booting up and asks if i want to boot in safe mose i cant switch it to safe mode becuase the keyboard doesnt work there either. Also I'm not sure why but the Clock is suddenly 23 minutes behind. I know it seems irrelivant but it happend the same time everything else did. also my external mouse i plugged in didnt give any response either so its not a hardware issue.
Thanks
Nick
Hi Its me, nick, i sent it back to acer becuase its only a month old and the warantee was still active and when they returned it to me they said that the motherboard needed replacing so it was nearly beyond fixing....it would have cost me loads of money but acer did it for free...all i had to pay for was the shipping to the facility, in TX which only cost $8.10 pretty reasonable if you ask me.
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