Oh no...

I had to abort the fragging at nineteen percent because the friggin' screen froze...it happened while I was trying to look at files on the drive. I tried to minimize everything, but instead the three windows disappeared but for the upper left hand corner. There was no icons, and nothing I could click on anywhere. I had to cut power.

In booting back up, it takes forever to get the internet running, and my homepage is all scrambled...although once past the homepage, everything appears normal.

What the hell?

No beeps?

Memory could have failed, but that doesn't seem likely. For a minute it was kind of sounding like your graphics card was shot, but if it is rebooting randomly you might have a shot power supply or connection. Either way, it sounds like you have a hardware issue, and since I'm not there to run through a check list with the machine you might be better off taking it into a shop or getting an entirely new computer.

If it is still under warranty you can call the manufacture up and have them assist you, if not you might still be able to get help from them but it would be limited.

Is it an acer? I've had two acer laptops in here with powerup woes. If you look on goog, you will find that acers are plagued with strange acpi bios and/or hardware issues that some people claim that bios flashes can fix. I gave the laptops back and told them to take em to a qualified tech. I didn't want the liability of possibly killing them with a bad flash.
I have a third acer laptop that someone gave me because she thought it was broken. (she was gonna crunch it. i said NO! i'll take it) Mash on the power button and power light comes on and looks like it'll boot then craps out. I can get it to boot by taking the battery out and plugging it back in while mashing the power button. It'll run ok for abt a half hour before it starts freakin out with acpi errors. And it's not hot, either. One of these days when I'm bored but ambitious, I'll flash the bios and see what happens.
So the thought for you is (after my rambling) is make a partition for linux or, at least, load up a linux live cd and keep an eye on system messages. Even if it isn't an acer it could give you some insight. If it runs fine for some hours with no errors, you might chalk it up to a windohs fail. In that case, you might as well install linux and be done with the windohs silliness. But if you must have windohs, you will know you'll need to re-install.
Good luck, man

u do have a virus 4 shure..........
be very carefull messing around in ur bios menu. if u have just one sttiing set wrong u will crash it..lol
then u will be paying sum one like me 150 bux to get u back up running..

i am almost 100% shure u have a malicious program on there.
witch could include a keylogger so dont log in to ur online bank ..lol
witch means all those files u backed up r not safe either. dont transfer any file to other computers.
u would not kiss a sick person would u?? transfering infected files is the same thing..lol
considering u had problems with both computers, u could have picked it up from a email or file transfer.
u need to get a virus removel program that u can run from cd rom.
u have to boot from the cd rom and not hard drive at start up.
the scan could take a few hours even over nite depending on how gud ur system is.
anti virus programs like norton 360 will do u no gud untill u get rid of it first.
anti virus programs have to be instaled on a clean pc or the virus will just hide from it..lol
dont try any down loads from the infected pc. the virus will only infect it too.
go to a clean pc and google "pc cleaner".. researh any down loads b4 u take a chance.
hope i was of sum help. im still learning this stuff my self, and have save 720 bux so far..
gud luck bro..


sorry about the grammer. not my strong point lol..