My computer has been having some real trouble lately. What's happening is that it will crash then when i reboot it will hang at the splash screen and never start. Reformatting seems to be a temporary solution as it only lasted a few days before the problem happens again. It has happened to me three times as of now and I have not reformatted since the third time.
I can boot in safe mode. On the acer splash screen and the "starting windows" screens there are strange dots evenly spaced all over the screen in a grid. Memtest found nothing wrong with the RAM. The BIOS is pretty old, it's from 2006.
My computer is an Acer Aspire T180. It comes with windows vista and i upgrade it to windows 7 32-bit. I have modified the computer over the years. It now has a 8600GTX, 4GB RAM, 1TB HD and a 550 Watt PSU.
EDIT: Could an admin move this to Win7 forum? That's where I meant to post it. Though this problem has occurred on both windows 7 (1st and 2nd time) and windows vista(third time)
I can boot in safe mode. On the acer splash screen and the "starting windows" screens there are strange dots evenly spaced all over the screen in a grid. Memtest found nothing wrong with the RAM. The BIOS is pretty old, it's from 2006.
My computer is an Acer Aspire T180. It comes with windows vista and i upgrade it to windows 7 32-bit. I have modified the computer over the years. It now has a 8600GTX, 4GB RAM, 1TB HD and a 550 Watt PSU.
EDIT: Could an admin move this to Win7 forum? That's where I meant to post it. Though this problem has occurred on both windows 7 (1st and 2nd time) and windows vista(third time)