What could be wrong with my Acer Aspire 3000 Laptop?

Question

my laptop occasionally crashes, at post bios and when fully booted. sometimes it will work okay for a day or two and then crashes. When it crashes, the screen freezes and bunch of lines and colors slowly appear and the computer dies. There have been occasions it would do this, and all of sudden work again and the lines/colors would disappear.

I formatted and clean install windows xp home, and it still crashes. I didn't upgrade bios, i didn't have a virus (fars i know, since i do keep my anti virus up to date and scan it regularly) I also re inserted memory and didn't help.

So what do you guys think is wrong? LCD? Motherboard? Video? I'm stumped. What stinks the most, the warranty ran out in December! :-( And Acer's support SUCKS!

Nothing has spilled on it. I'm the only user and I use it regularly to take notes for college.

i didnt have any type of tool bar, etc installed. i'm kind of anal what is installed.

i formatted the computer and it still crashes. so im thinking theres a hardware issue. just did'nt know if anyone would recognize what may be going wrong by the descriptino of the problem.. however i will take your suggestions into consideration and will try scan disk and defrag. I did that a weekly basis but who knows. its worht a shot!

Answer 1

I have an acer aspire 3000 as well.. my mother board blew in November and I sent it off to Acer as I was still under warranty.. they had it for 3 months..when I got it back it was constantly freezing up.. I asked on here, and a guy gave me some help.. It worked. Here is what he told me to do.
- When you are working in a large file, save frequently to restore full memory access. (Your work remains in memory until you “save” it to disk.)

1 Run an error check? Open My Computer,
Right-cl on C:, Select Properties, Tools – Run an Error Check ( checkmark “check all and fix); then run a Defrag

2. Are you using Yahoo Toolbar? Run a full Norton Antispy.

3. From IE, click Tools, Internet Options
delete cookies
delete files (offline files)
clear history (set days to save to 0 if you want)
click o.k., and Restart

3. click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools – run Disk Cleanup

4. click Start, Run ipconfig renew (type ipconfig space renew)

All these things should be done regularly. The more frequently they are run, the less time they take.

Mine has stopped crashing..check your task manager, check to see how many iexplorers you are running.. I was showing 2 or 3 but only one open.. it was driving me nuts..since I ran the error check, all is perfect.

good luck

Answer 2

Maybe some liquid was spilt on it? or the inside is dirty?
It seems more like a Electronics prblem, like DRY JOINTS at the soldering