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    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Besi681, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. Besi681

    Besi681 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Guys i need some help with a strange situations that is annoying me..
    I have a 5920G
    4GB ram
    Intel Core2 T8300
    Nvidia 8600M GS
    250Gb hdd

    Running OEM Vista x32 Home Premium i had no problem for some months, but these couple of weeks it frieze at start up: Win loads taskbar and desktop and the mouse pointer shows the working icon i cant click anywhere, so in the end i have to keep the power key pressed to turn off "brutally" the pc.
    To resolve this I've just installed win7 x64 Home premium and it run well for some days. And today the exact problem :mad: Desktop and taskbar loads up and the mouse pointer shows the working icon and again i can't click anywhere so again i have to keep the power key pressed to turn off.

    I've installed all the drivers from acer website from Vista Home premium x64.

    Please anyone has an idea or the similar bug?
     
    Besi681, Oct 21, 2009
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    k9hydr4 Notebook Deity

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    Did you upgrade or clean install W7?
     
    k9hydr4, Oct 21, 2009
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  3. Besi681

    Besi681 Notebook Enthusiast

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    W7 Clean install
     
    Besi681, Oct 21, 2009
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    Check if the harddisk is failing.
     
    weinter, Oct 21, 2009
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    crazycanuk Notebook Virtuoso

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    try NOT using the acer drivers but pull them from respective manufacturers, there are sometimes buggy custom drivers from manufacturers, next guess run a diskchecker for bad sectors randomly cropping up ESPECIALLY if you have a hitachi hard drive.

    gee Weinter guess I better type faster
     
    crazycanuk, Oct 21, 2009
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  6. Besi681

    Besi681 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I tried a chkdsk and at the end showed up a message like: Windows repaired....bla bla and now works fine.
    Crazycanuk you have a hitachi hdd? Is this common? Anyway i think they are good hdd. Or not?
    Thanks for advices
     
    Besi681, Oct 23, 2009
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    Had alot of hitachi drives fail in Acers, Apples and a few Thinkpads
     
    crazycanuk, Oct 23, 2009
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