Ok. My Acer Aspire one is freezing up at random. Its not graphics, I can get games to load. Its not overheating, my processor runs at 33 degrees C. I just replaced the ram card, thinking that was the problem. Now I'm thinking it's the soddered on memory on the motherboard. How do I get this fixed? Rather what should I expect to spend to fix it.
My Acer Aspire One freezes quite often too. Often, it isn't actually hung. It's just that the Intel SSD (if yours uses SSD like mine) is extremely, extremely slow. So I often have to wait 2-5 minutes before everything goes back to normal. Other times, it just hangs for no apparent reason. I don't think it's a hardware problem in my case though... as those hangs ceased to happen once I upgraded it to Windows 7 Starter Edition.
No blue screen or error message as of yet. I was installing a video game, GTA IV. It froze mid-install, and has been doing this since. You mean it's just the hard drive lagging? I dont know. I left it alone for a while, and it was still stuck after. I'll leave it alone again next time it hangs up. I'm still able to use messenger while it's hung up, but it never went back to normal.
would it be possible to skip past the "What I Did Wrong" phase and move on to the "What Can I Do To Fix It" phase?
Even my laptop with C2D 2.0ghz. Nvidia 7400 can't run it. See if you can boot into Safe Mode. I wonder if it could be hard disk problem.
It boots fine, but as it runs it freezes up. As I said, my mouse isn't affected, nor is messenger. And I have tried it in safe mode. Still happens.
Could you explain "freezes up"? Everything refuses to run but your mouse cursor is not affected? Messenger works fine too?
another way is to check the event manager at control panel. what os are you running anyway? finally manage to solve my random system hang issue (turns out to be cable issues and not the motherboard [tested with a new mobo] )
Your system is not hung if you can move the mouse and even use MSN Messenger. What exactly do you mean by "it freezes up"?
Right now I am guessing mouse moves, but cant click anything? But messenger works Sure its not a mouse button problem?
I found out what it is. Acer, in it's WTF wisdom, soddered 512mb of ram onto the motherboard. that's what went bad. gotta get a whole new board to replace it. Cheapest I found was $175.
most of my programs will stop responding. If I'm playing a game, it stops cold. If I'm websurfing, it diesn't load any pages. Messenger is the only one not really effected.
Wow.. That is really odd, because if it hangs, then you should not be able to do anything with it... not even Messenger. How did you figure out it was the soldered-on RAM?
