Some Problems, mainly with Reading CDs?

I have a new laptop, an Acer Aspire 5520 that came with Vista Home
Premiere on it and I've never owned a laptop or Vista before, but I'm
pretty sure the problems I'm having aren't good signs for a new
computer... I haven't installed or registered anything with it since I
got it besides installing Vista and trying to transfer a few files over
from my other computer, not even set-up an internet connection internet
yet.

The day after I got it, the touch pad wouldn't respond on startup, so I
had to reboot it and it responded after that, does that occasionally
happen with laptops? I thought it wasn't a good sign for a brand-new
computer.

Just two days ago, a fatal error (blue screen) occurred for what seemed
no reason. All I was doing was listening to music, I'd just put the
laptop beside me on a chair and within 10 seconds, the screen went
black, I thought it was going into sleep mode awfully quickly, and the
music was still playing, so it didn't made much sense. The black screen
wouldn't leave when I tried making the computer respond, and then the
fatal error came up and it tried restarting its self, I tried three
times to get it to restart in normal mode and it would just continually
bring the page back to the question of if I wanted to restart in safe or
normal mode, I didn't want to start it up in safe mode, so I shut off
the computer and restarted it, and it was fine after that.

The other thing that is greatly confusing me is my DVD
reader/writer/rewriter... I've burned some CDs from my other computer
(XP, which has CD reader writer capabilities) and most of the time,
anything inside folders won't appear when I put it on my laptop, it'll
show me that the folders are empty on the CD -- sometimes a particular
folder will work, but it's unexpected and doesn't seem to follow any
logic when it does, like once it read a folder with around 200 .JPG
images and a few word documents inside, but two other folders on the
same CD that only contained .JPG images showed as being empty. When I
made those folders with the images .RAR files when I burned another CD,
they loaded. Once I experimented when a folder wouldn't load the 9 or so
..AVI files inside it, so I went on my other computer, removed them from
the folder, and reburned them to CD not inside a folder, the files were
then readable on my laptop. Sometimes, an entire CD (WITHOUT folders)
will show as not having anything on it, like an entire CD of maybe 100
images won't load... so it's not just folders that it won't work for
sometimes. The drive always shows the correct amount of space that's
being used on the CD, even if nothing loads when I click on the drive
to view its content, the CDs work perfectly on my Windows XP computer,
the one I burned them from. Is this a Vista thing? Or is something else
wrong?

Oh and any CD I've burned on XP in Windows Media Player as a CD for
music (the type that'll hold 70 (80?) minutes of songs), when I insert
it on my Vista laptop, the files are read as .CD files, which are
around 50 KBs in size, and if I put them on the computer and then
remove the CD containing the files, they won't play. I need to put them
in Windows Media Player and rip them to the laptop and specify that they
become MP3 files when they're ripped, even though that's what they were
burned as in the first place! Not only that, but the files are titled
"track 1" and so on, not with the artist and title of the song like
they were burned as... it seems that they are being read like an
official CD when they aren't... why? And how can I change this?

So, does my computer have problems? Or are these things kind of normal
with laptops and/or Vista? I really don't know... I just got this
computer of Christmas. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!


--
Karala

"Karala" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I have a new laptop, an Acer Aspire 5520 that came with Vista Home
> Premiere on it and I've never owned a laptop or Vista before, but I'm
> pretty sure the problems I'm having aren't good signs for a new
> computer... I haven't installed or registered anything with it since I
> got it besides installing Vista and trying to transfer a few files over
> from my other computer, not even set-up an internet connection internet
> yet.
>
> The day after I got it, the touch pad wouldn't respond on startup, so I
> had to reboot it and it responded after that, does that occasionally
> happen with laptops? I thought it wasn't a good sign for a brand-new
> computer.
>
> Just two days ago, a fatal error (blue screen) occurred for what seemed
> no reason. All I was doing was listening to music, I'd just put the
> laptop beside me on a chair and within 10 seconds, the screen went
> black, I thought it was going into sleep mode awfully quickly, and the
> music was still playing, so it didn't made much sense. The black screen
> wouldn't leave when I tried making the computer respond, and then the
> fatal error came up and it tried restarting its self, I tried three
> times to get it to restart in normal mode and it would just continually
> bring the page back to the question of if I wanted to restart in safe or
> normal mode, I didn't want to start it up in safe mode, so I shut off
> the computer and restarted it, and it was fine after that.
>
> The other thing that is greatly confusing me is my DVD
> reader/writer/rewriter... I've burned some CDs from my other computer
> (XP, which has CD reader writer capabilities) and most of the time,
> anything inside folders won't appear when I put it on my laptop, it'll
> show me that the folders are empty on the CD -- sometimes a particular
> folder will work, but it's unexpected and doesn't seem to follow any
> logic when it does, like once it read a folder with around 200 .JPG
> images and a few word documents inside, but two other folders on the
> same CD that only contained .JPG images showed as being empty. When I
> made those folders with the images .RAR files when I burned another CD,
> they loaded. Once I experimented when a folder wouldn't load the 9 or so
> AVI files inside it, so I went on my other computer, removed them from
> the folder, and reburned them to CD not inside a folder, the files were
> then readable on my laptop. Sometimes, an entire CD (WITHOUT folders)
> will show as not having anything on it, like an entire CD of maybe 100
> images won't load... so it's not just folders that it won't work for
> sometimes. The drive always shows the correct amount of space that's
> being used on the CD, even if nothing loads when I click on the drive
> to view its content, the CDs work perfectly on my Windows XP computer,
> the one I burned them from. Is this a Vista thing? Or is something else
> wrong?
>
> Oh and any CD I've burned on XP in Windows Media Player as a CD for
> music (the type that'll hold 70 (80?) minutes of songs), when I insert
> it on my Vista laptop, the files are read as .CD files, which are
> around 50 KBs in size, and if I put them on the computer and then
> remove the CD containing the files, they won't play. I need to put them
> in Windows Media Player and rip them to the laptop and specify that they
> become MP3 files when they're ripped, even though that's what they were
> burned as in the first place! Not only that, but the files are titled
> "track 1" and so on, not with the artist and title of the song like
> they were burned as... it seems that they are being read like an
> official CD when they aren't... why? And how can I change this?
>
> So, does my computer have problems? Or are these things kind of normal
> with laptops and/or Vista? I really don't know... I just got this
> computer of Christmas. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
>


A new laptop should run without any errors at all.
All my machines are built with old , junk parts...and they generally hum
along just fine for years at a time without
any problems.

Contact the vendor at once and have them fix it to your satisfaction before
the warranty runs out.

I am sure you are generally an extremely polite person...but this is one
time to use your good nature sparingly!