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    Freezing Problem with Acer Aspire 5630

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by alq789, Oct 28, 2007.

  1. alq789

    alq789 Newbie

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    I have a 3 week old Acer Aspire 5630 and when I am playing a game, whether it is a standard Vista game or an online game, the computer freezes. Nothing works to unfreeze it, i tried Esc, Ctrl Alt Del, and the only thing that I can do is the Power button. Please help.
     
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  2. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    So any sort of game... by online games do you mean flash?

    That doesn't sound like the actual notebook - correct me if I am wrong - but the Aspire 5630's gig of ram shouldn't be a problem and the graphics should be fine for the online games at least.

    All I can suggest is software... what software have you installed on it so far?
     
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  3. alq789

    alq789 Newbie

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    It first happened on a MSN online game called Peggle and then it happened with Minesweeper that came with the computer. I have not noticed any problems with Office.
    all I have installed is the Office, Adobe Acrobat, Filemaker Pro software.
     
    alq789, Oct 29, 2007
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    chrisidi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Got trouble too (playing solitaire..) but my guess is that the 5630 is not with all component happy with vista, I saw some errors in eventlog (app and system) with the Empowering Technology tools and ACPI (controller) tht tells me some BIOS trouble eventually...
    What you think guys??
     
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  5. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Umm yes probably Vista lol - I always blame everything on Vista. I'd install XP - I'm pretty much definite that would help!

    Seen as I can't do much more to help I feel really guilty and so because your such an obvious minesweeper fan: if you want to win hold SHIFT --> X Y Z Z Y and then release shift and press it again. Every time you go over a mine a pixel will show up in the top left of your screen!
     
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    Thank you for your help. I so much appreciate it. I sent an email to Acer and they said to try a system restore. If not, to try to do a System Recovery to the factory default. Will try the first one.
    Thanks Lord Tadpoles for your extra help.
     
    alq789, Oct 30, 2007
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  7. chrisidi

    chrisidi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi alq789,
    BTW I completely reinstalled my Notebook and got the UAC off which I think was giving me trouble in addition I am using DriverHQ which is quiet satisfying (got just on my wife's dell XP system trouble by running it MS Visual c++ errors :mad: )
     
    chrisidi, Nov 8, 2007
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