On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:48:38 +0530, gormo7 wrote:
> Hi, im hoping some of you technical wizards can help me on this!
>
> Right i have Vista 32bit running on my Acer, Had it about 1 year now.
> Every so often it performs crash dumps ( a little more often then it
> should do actually)
>
> Last friday night it did a crash dump, then when restarting it just
> wouldnt....It kept showing a blank screen for about 30 minutes. then it
> would go to Windows Start-up repair, and just go on and on for about
> another 30 minutes, then tell me it couldnt find anything wrong.
>
> I tried Loading in safe mode, with command prompt and networking help
> but it judt did exactly the same.
>
> I ran the memory diagnostic and found no problems.
>
> So then i restored the system to before a Windows update on the same day
> this all happened. Exactly the same kept happening, Some times i would
> get as far as logging on after about an hour of waiting. It would Log on
> and then just freeze.
>
> I restored to a few days before last friday and tried again, exactly the
> same kept happening.
>
> Then this morning it got to the log on screen. i tried logging on and it
> said something along the lines of 'Windows has failed to Activate. error
> code 0x80070426'
>
> I havent got any back-ups on disk (stupid i know, i was actually going
> to do one before this happened) I havent got the operating system disk
> as the computer came pre-installed with Vista and had no Disk.
>
> I know i could probably restore the system to factory setting somehow,
> but i dont want to lose everything on there! There must be something i
> can do.
>
> Any help would be massively appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
Possible you have either a memory or disk hardware problem. I would boot
a Linux Live CD, perform the memtest and run badblocks to see.
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