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Backtracking on the Acer staying with Vista Basic. Rather, I will see if it runs fine after a full system restore. If it's still painfully slow, I plan on installing PCLinuxOS on it.
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cpd2009 Wrote:Busy setting up a recently acquired laptop. I wanted a laptop solely for music playback, and I finally found a good used laptop that will fit the bill. Said laptop will also be a backup just in case Greta ever has to go out of service one day.
Neat images of it. How did you end up with this, if that's not too nosy to ask.
Glad you guys are still kicking around. I guess I knew that though. Hehe.
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I have a question for David and Blake.
Do you know what would cause a laptop to shut down and restart without warning? The Acer seems to do that at very random times, usually after the system tries doing a resource intensive task. I downloaded HWMonitor, and the CPU temps range from 110F under light loads to around 130F during resource intensive tasks.
I haven't yet tested the memory, but I am getting a 32bit copy of Ubuntu for testing as well as for the MemTest86+ program since I don't feel like wasting an entire DVD-R for a small program, and I'm not sure if the Acer can boot from a USB disk.
The Vista restore didn't fix the issue, and while I was trying to boot PCLinuxOS 64bit, the system shut down too.
It seems to point at a potential overheating issue as it seems to occur whenever the system undergoes a resource intensive task and the CPU fan is blowing full speed.
I searched on Google, and I got everything from potential motherboard or hardware problems to faulty RAM.
Am I right on my theory, or do you have any other ideas on what it could be?
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54 degrees centigrade isn't really that hot; what's more alarming is if it ran at like 80 to a hundred like what happened once to my GT240 before I changed the thermal paste on it. Though of course I'm not ruling out the possibility of an overheating issue.
And yes, you're right about your Acer having a possible hardware problem. See if you could do a RAM sanity check first with Memtest86+, preferably a two-pass check. If that didn't turn up any apparent errors, it could be due to blown or faulty caps or other components in your laptop's motherboard. Such may require either a reflow/reball, or worse, replacement.