im getting jumbled letters on the bios bott screen in the area where it says Checking CD-ROM... and all that. sometimes it just frrezes. and if windoes makes it to the boot screen it will reboot straight after it. but any other time i boot i get this message, this is a legit clean install of XP home by the way. what can you make of this?
what happened is about a month ago, i turned the computer on. explorer didnt start up (it was running extremly slow btw, which was unusuall...not that its fast, its an acer)
i turned it on, didnt load explorer process, so i started task manager and started it manually, then when ever i clicked on an icon it didnt do anything and the taskbar had the little loading cursor over it and it was like that for about 20 mins until i gave up and rebooted it. when i booted it back up it ran dskcheck. so i let it go and it froze on dskcheck. huh????? why!?!?! so i booted it up AGAIN!! and it did the same thing. then after about the 3rd rebootup i did it was just rebooting itself right after the XP boot screen... so i reinstaled XP on its HDD and test it on my computer, and well its fine, so that rules out the HDD. i tested the ram aswell as diffrent sticks and it still wont boot, so its not the ram.
So i was thinking... mabey the CPU or the BIOS...? Better not be the bios cuz its soldered on! oh and ive tried onboard, and 2 graphics card and it does the same thing.
Its an Acer Aspire SA10. 2 x 256MB ddr 400MHz RAM. 1 Single core 2.80GHz Celeron D. (socket 478 or something, the one before 775)
geforce 5200.
hehheh i actually did fix it, i know i said i tested the ram, but i never actually took out the ram that came with it, i thought that that ram was the problem, and i thought taking it out would be pointless. and annoying cuz its hard getting the desktop back into its cave with all the wires in. but in the end i thought... well ok, ill give it one try. so i did... and it worked. lol all that time wasted!!!!! So yea... if anyone else has this problem test ALL of your ram first!!! :D
but if anyone reads this. for some reason when i open up windows activation and click activate over the net. it says it failed to connect to there server or something... i think its because im on wireless is there a fix for that??
