Laptop Guru's - Bristol - Problem

[JR]

My father had a problem with his laptop.

Its an Acer and its about 3 years old.

A mate of mine looked at it and put a new hard drive in it as the hd had failed.

All good, it then started to bring up a blue screen saying a problem with the physical memory. Then proceeding to dump it i think, the laptop then restarts.

In an ideal situation, a member could look at/fix it or recommend a place in the local area that he could take it to.

Just want some one you can trust , dont want him to have to buy a new laptop if he does not need to etc.

And i dont think its fair to keep pestering my mate.

Thanks in advance

Justin.

 

[coventry_kid2006]

If you dont have any data on it i would use the Acer restore disks. It's prob easier to do that if you dont have any data on it, or if you have data on it copy it off.

 

[KDF]

My father had a problem with his laptop, Its an Acer.

There's your problem.



Ordinarily I would just leave it at that but...

Worst case scenario your 'mate' did something like hit the ram with static or something.

More likely it just windows being windows.. try a re-install and see if your still having problem..

could be a ton of things though TBH.

 

[JR]

Hmm ok. Might be worth appproching a local pc repairer.

 

[Mattrix]

Hmm ok. Might be worth appproching a local pc repairer.

If the HDDs already gone and now its complaining about memory, id probably look into getting a new one... laptops tend to go wappy after 3-4 years!

 

[KDF]

Na, hard drives go that's normal (unfortunately)... it only takes a small amount of time to eliminate the obvious stuff..

Like, run a memtest etc. its not difficult as there are programs out there that will do it for you.. some BIOS's have a mem test built in aswell.

 

[JR]

Any links to such programs kdf ?

 

[Schweppy]

Google is your friend homo/.

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

 

[fulhamfcboy]

There's your problem.



Ordinarily I would just leave it at that but...

Worst case scenario your 'mate' did something like hit the ram with static or something.

More likely it just windows being windows.. try a re-install and see if your still having problem..

could be a ton of things though TBH.

Gotta love the Acer haters....I bought an Acer about 2 years ago, and its run like a dream ever since. For the money is was very well specced compared to rivals in the same price range.
I would agree with the static comments..... Having completed a Sun Microsystems M series hardware course a few weeks back I heard some great stories from the trainer of static damage fails....

 

[KDF]

Google is your friend homo/.

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

Could try that, but if he is having troubles booting into windows he would be better with something like this..

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

just download the ISO on a different computer, burn it to cd and boot the laptop from the cd. it will run the memtest and report any faults.

 

[JR]

Thanks chaps. Great help.