Freezing problem

I have an Acer 1551-4650 that I purchased roughly 10 months ago that I aboely love. Everything has run great until a few days ago when it randomly froze. I believe I was in the middle of typing, and everything froze up and wouldnt respond. The temperature was a little warm, but surely nothing worse than what has been seen before. I turned it off, and when I tried to turn it back on the screen remained black. I turned it off and on several more times and still the screen remained black. I then waited about 10 minutes, turned it on again, and it worked fine. I used it for a little while, let it sit and go into hibernation mode, and when I came back to it, it froze again. Over the past few days Ive tried turning it on several times and it now will either not turn on at all, or start to turn on but freeze in the middle of booting up. I do not think its an overheating issue, as it is never even on long enough to overheat. Any ideas?

 

It may be one of the following:
-graphics module overheating
-LCD screen's circuit board overheating or perhaps have a loose connection.
-Virus corrupted the system

to check the screen/graphics you can plug in an external monitor to your computer and see if your system boots up.
If the system works then it could be the screen.
If the system turns on by the monitor freezes then it could be the graphics.

If you can get the system to boot, then try to run your AntiVirus just to rule out that possibility.

Also, if you can get the system up and running, call up the task manager and check to see how bogged down you system is. If it's really bogged go into the process tab and look for the program that's eating your resources.
Do a google search of the program to see what it is. If it's safe go ahead and stop that process and then, using msconfig uncheck the box that tells the system to load that program on startup.

Hope this helps in some way.

Fry

 

After reading the reply I attempted to turn on the computer again. After pushing the power button the computer came alive like it should, but after about 10 seconds of attempting to start up the screen went blank and I assume froze. I looked at the screen at an angle and could see it was still on, as it was slightly glowing. I turned the computer back off, plugged in an external monitor, and turned it back on. This time nothing at all, and the power button of the monitor turned orange to indicate it was receiving no signal. I disconnected the monitor from the laptop and turned the laptop off and on again. I once again looked at the screen from an angle to see if there was any glow, and there wasnt, the screen was completely black.