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    May have broken my Acer Aspire 5050 - help badly needed!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by EmmaCr, Mar 6, 2009.

  1. EmmaCr

    EmmaCr Newbie

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    Hi

    Just to start - I'm not amazingly good with computers so I'm sorry if bits I'm trying to explain make no sense..

    As mentioned in the title I have an Acer Aspire 5050 laptop, problem is that after I turned it off last night (when it was working perfectly fine) and turned it on again today it doesn't seem to be working..

    It is VERY laggy all of a sudden to the point where the cursor hardly moves and jumps badly, and all the keys need pressing at least a few times before a letter actually appears on the screen - there has been nothing spilt on it and I just can't understand for the life of me why it has chosen to do this all of a sudden. I tried formatting the hard drive and re-installing vista but the second I logged on again for the first time after doing so, I'm getting exactly the same problem.

    If anyone can recommend doing anything or might know what is wrong with my laptop I'd be VERY appreciative if you could help in any way - i really have no idea as to what I'm supposed to do

    Thanks a lot

    Emma
     
    EmmaCr, Mar 6, 2009
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  2. ATG

    ATG 2x4 Super Moderator

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    Bad RAM? How much RAM has your laptop installed(physically)? How much does Windows detect?
     
    ATG, Mar 6, 2009
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  3. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    as above...its bad ram had the same problem on a 5315 it was a stick of dead ram, new ram fixed the problem.
    check to see how much ram is showing. but this is no real indicator as ram has a small buffer chip which tells windows what its not if its working ok.

    just a thought
    Phil :D
     
    hoggie, Mar 6, 2009
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  4. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    Good to have you back Hoggie...err... Phil

    Was wondering what had happened to you being a Grandad and all :D :D

    Cheers
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 7, 2009
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