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AndrewJ · 12-05-2005, 21:18

Hiya all, well tonight my girlfriend and I are doing our normal chatting away online thing to relatives in other countries and such, her laptop freezes, and would not respond to a single command and I tried everything, all I got was the HD light jammed on.

There was no harsh noises no bad smell, nothing. She has not installed anything to my knowledge even though I asked her although shes a little miffed now as its broken down.

It runs on Windows Xp Home Sp2, and in all the months we have had it we have had no issues like this. We did encounter some virus a few days back which I removed in safe mode.

Now on reboot from this ( hard reboot turn power off) it gets to the Windows GUI bootscreen and locks there forever wont move. I then tried safe mode without networking and same again locks up on mup.sys, tried it again WITH networking ( she runs a ethernet from her laptop to my pc to provide my net) same again locks up.

I managed to get online by removing the ethernet from her laptop and putting it into the SACM and removing the usb lead also, thankfully without a reboot I am online however i wont reboot or anything.

Anyone able to offer some tips here or is it totally knackered, it has been used hard over the past months its specs follows.

Acer Aspire 1355lc
Amd Athlon Xp 2600-Mobile.
256mb 333mhz Ram.
30gb 5400rpm HD
S3 Onboard Visuals
DVD-ROM/CDRW Combi Drive
15inch Wga 1024 by 768 screen 32bit.
AC97 Onboard sound

Thanks all.

p.s: and what do you use to clean tft screens? hers is FILTHY!

12-05-2005, 21:18	#1
AndrewJ Inactive Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 7,737	Laptops Dead Hiya all, well tonight my girlfriend and I are doing our normal chatting away online thing to relatives in other countries and such, her laptop freezes, and would not respond to a single command and I tried everything, all I got was the HD light jammed on. There was no harsh noises no bad smell, nothing. She has not installed anything to my knowledge even though I asked her although shes a little miffed now as its broken down. It runs on Windows Xp Home Sp2, and in all the months we have had it we have had no issues like this. We did encounter some virus a few days back which I removed in safe mode. Now on reboot from this ( hard reboot turn power off) it gets to the Windows GUI bootscreen and locks there forever wont move. I then tried safe mode without networking and same again locks up on mup.sys, tried it again WITH networking ( she runs a ethernet from her laptop to my pc to provide my net) same again locks up. I managed to get online by removing the ethernet from her laptop and putting it into the SACM and removing the usb lead also, thankfully without a reboot I am online however i wont reboot or anything. Anyone able to offer some tips here or is it totally knackered, it has been used hard over the past months its specs follows. Acer Aspire 1355lc Amd Athlon Xp 2600-Mobile. 256mb 333mhz Ram. 30gb 5400rpm HD S3 Onboard Visuals DVD-ROM/CDRW Combi Drive 15inch Wga 1024 by 768 screen 32bit. AC97 Onboard sound Thanks all. p.s: and what do you use to clean tft screens? hers is FILTHY!