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Blue Screen - Windows fails to boot
Hi there, I've had my Pc, which is an Acer Aspire M5201 for some time. My previous OS was vista and I never had any problems with my computer until about after four or five months, at which point it was too late to send back and simply get a new one because I had already taken off the case and hadn't realised that the warranty sticker was in a position where it could break, so I messed that up. Anyway, I'm not exactly computer illiterate so I decided to try and fix things myself.
Now the main problem with my pc before i installed windows 7, about two days ago is that my computer used to freeze during games, and I thought this is because my gfx card was poor, because most games that I was trying to run indicated that this was where my pc was lagging.
This was my previous card
Nvidia 9500 gs.
I therefore upgraded to an ATI Radeon HD5670 and my games run so much better than before, much faster etc.
However, my computer did still freeze on occasion and I assumed that this may be because I was running vista, and several people told me to upgrade to windows 7.
So my girlfriend, who has an acer laptop had an acer windows 7 upgrade dvd which said that my pc was compaitible (because it gae you a list of models) - so i tried to upgrade, the upgrade failed and therefore I had to do a complete format.
So having installed windows 7 I'm extremely pleased with it because everything does run faster etc.
Yet the main problem is now when i load up windows, randomly i get certain errors but in the end i always manage to get on to windows (touch wood).
So the errors i get are
a disk error has occurred, press cntrl alt del to continue
If I don't get this error I then get
Launch start up repair (recommended)
Start windows normally
Now, what sometimes happens is if i choose either option, it says
Windows is loading files - then it breaks comes up with an error
If it doesn't do that then usually the repair doesn't achieve anything, so I usually try just to start windows and then it randomly came on.
Now one of these errors seems to occur everytime i turn off my pc. I read other forums, thought hmm perhaps it's my ram so i tried one stick of ram in a different slot which wasn't being used
This worked, I restarted 4 or 5 times
I tried the other stick on its own
Again same thing.
I tried both of them in different slots
This worked again.
I rebooted - Breaks
I rebooted - works
So i thought hmm perhaps it's because I can only have one at a time, so i tried that and it still randomly comes on or fails. So i'm assuming it's coincidence? Either way I'm gutted and I desperately need this to work for uni purposes, so any advice will be great.
i have also located the dump files from the blue screen errors I've recieved (which btw i recieved if windows doesn't start, but NOT all the time.) How do i upload these files?
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