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    ACER Aspire 5570 - Memory Dump BSOD

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by TheHorseman, Jan 16, 2008.

  1. TheHorseman

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    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.

    Even Safe Mode won't load properly...sending me to another BSOD.

    I have searched on teh web for a solution but can't find anything and would like to try to resolve this before going back to the store.

    Can anyone please help?

    Thanks in advance!
     
    TheHorseman, Jan 16, 2008
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    Incursis Notebook Evangelist

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  3. TheHorseman

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    Thank you for the speedy reply Incursis!

    I used 5 different Memory testers from the Ultimate Boot CD and they all 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?
     
    TheHorseman, Jan 16, 2008
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