Greetings I have recently bought an ACER laptop with the following configuration:
Aspire 5570 2609
Core Duo 1.6 GH - 1Mb L2 Cache - 533MHz FSB
80 GB HD
1 GB DDR2 RAM (Samsung)
Windows Vista Home premium OEM.
Now I had the memory replaced by the manufacturer's technician, in front of my very eyes, to upgrade to 2GB DDR RAM using TWO identical Samsung 1GB DDR2 RAMS 5300....which according to Crucial.com should run fine on the damm thing.
Now at the store the technician showed me the BIOS showing the upgrade correctly and when I used it for the first time, it ran through all the motions of setting up Vista and worked fine for 5 days.
Then today, I started getting BSOD (blue screen of death) errors stating that Memory Dumps were being carried out and while I was able to recover the first few times, now all I get is a partial boot of windows, which shows a black screen and a windows-like mouse pointer which can be moved, but nothing else happens. And the screensaver activates after a while.
Oddly enough the problem seemed to start with the Acer Empowering Technology which would'nt load and would give an error when I tried to run it. Then it started crashing. I did manage to do a complete boot at one point and close Acer Empowering Technology Application right at the begining andit was a stable for a while...then I accidentaly activiated it using the "E" button and it crashed fully.
Even Safe Mode won't load properly...sending me to another BSOD.
I used 5 different Memory testers from the Ultimate Boot CD and some accused some sort of memory error, in fact, one listed over 40,000 errors...which is oddd as wouldn't this imply some sort of HW defect? Then why would the machine have worked fine for the first few days only to go bonkers now?
What intrigues me is that I can access the Windows Repair feature from the boot menu and when I try a System Recovery Point attempt, I get the "Memory location XXXX tried to address YYYY" message.
I have searched on the web for a solution but can't find anything and would like to try to resolve this before going back to the store.
At this point I'm considering trying a clean Windows XP install and see if that solves the problem.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks in advance!
Aspire 5570 2609
Core Duo 1.6 GH - 1Mb L2 Cache - 533MHz FSB
80 GB HD
1 GB DDR2 RAM (Samsung)
Windows Vista Home premium OEM.
Now I had the memory replaced by the manufacturer's technician, in front of my very eyes, to upgrade to 2GB DDR RAM using TWO identical Samsung 1GB DDR2 RAMS 5300....which according to Crucial.com should run fine on the damm thing.
Now at the store the technician showed me the BIOS showing the upgrade correctly and when I used it for the first time, it ran through all the motions of setting up Vista and worked fine for 5 days.
Then today, I started getting BSOD (blue screen of death) errors stating that Memory Dumps were being carried out and while I was able to recover the first few times, now all I get is a partial boot of windows, which shows a black screen and a windows-like mouse pointer which can be moved, but nothing else happens. And the screensaver activates after a while.
Oddly enough the problem seemed to start with the Acer Empowering Technology which would'nt load and would give an error when I tried to run it. Then it started crashing. I did manage to do a complete boot at one point and close Acer Empowering Technology Application right at the begining andit was a stable for a while...then I accidentaly activiated it using the "E" button and it crashed fully.
Even Safe Mode won't load properly...sending me to another BSOD.
I used 5 different Memory testers from the Ultimate Boot CD and some accused some sort of memory error, in fact, one listed over 40,000 errors...which is oddd as wouldn't this imply some sort of HW defect? Then why would the machine have worked fine for the first few days only to go bonkers now?
What intrigues me is that I can access the Windows Repair feature from the boot menu and when I try a System Recovery Point attempt, I get the "Memory location XXXX tried to address YYYY" message.
I have searched on the web for a solution but can't find anything and would like to try to resolve this before going back to the store.
At this point I'm considering trying a clean Windows XP install and see if that solves the problem.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks in advance!
