Acer Aspire 5672wlmi Help Please

Hi,

i'm having a really big trouble with this laptop, when i got it 1st thing i did was remove all partitions and install xp pro.

after install, everything works great, i can get into safe mode, shuts down fast, but after i install all drivers from acer website (do i need all of them? ones like atheros etc) then start installing software i have MAJOR problems.

i keep getting drwatson postmortem debugger crashes, when this error happens i cant open anything without that error which then crashes anything im trying to open. i have to restart to correct this. but still happens again shortly. i also expierence extremely slow shutdown times and i can't boot into safe mode anymore, loading just stops at TDI.sys

i managed to stop the drwatson crash by removing the ATI stuff, but the slow shutdown and not being able to get into safe mode.

i have reformatted the laptop twice now with still the same problems.

i really need help on this one, is it drivers? software? hardware?

thanks very much.

 

sorry, to correct this, i ment to say that the slow shutdown times and not being able to get into safe mode problems have not gone away.

thanks

 

I can't really offer any help but I can tell you that I am having the exact same problems, I think I may try and find all my drivers seperately on the net, instead of from acer. But I do have the same laptop, same errors, and I put pro on it and everything.
If anyone can offer any advice it would be a great help

 

hi

i was beginning to think i was the only one!

i have some questions for you.

how many times have u reformatted etc?

at what point do you start getting errors?

do you install any alcohol cd/dvd burning software?

if its ok with you we could work together to try and solve this cause its really annoying me. if you want we can exchange email addresses to give each other updates.

thanks

 

So far i have only reformatted once because of the errors. I did reformat when i got it to put on XP Pro. I do have alcohol 120% installed on here also. I think its been bout 2 weeks since i reformatted and I started getting errors again a couple of days ago. When I reformatted it had got to the point where I could not really run anything on here, as of now the errors aren't nearly as frequent this time around. I have had the laptop for about a month or a month and a half now. If this keeps up I guess I'm gonna have to talk to Acer. If you would like to contact me by email, my address is: [email protected]
Hopefully we can get this worked out.

-Chad

 

I'm not sure if this problem has already been solved..but have you tried using omega drivers? I'm running them on my 5672WLMi with x1400 no problems.

 

no not yet but i will try that thanks, did you have problems before installing omega drivers?

 

omega drivers seem to have installed well, no problems. but still very slow shutdown time and i can't get into safemode

 

Try to upgrade the BIOS:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5620_5670/bios/3234.zip

It sounds like a registry problem too.

Gradius