Hello, My PC is about 2 years old now, I love it! Its a 300Gb Acer Aspire running windows
vista home premium 32bit.

2 days ago, I was watching some videos online when all of a sudden my internet disconnects, this is normal for my dlink to do that every once in a while, I think its
overheating or something, anyways, usealy when it does that it disables all the usb ports, so this was normal for me, so I restart my pc to get my internet back, but the only difference is this time, I get Bluescreen before the log on screen, it was so fast I couldn't read the error. Anyways it restarted itself and I ran a startup repair, and after that it was fine and I could get back to my desktop, but.....

Everything was going fine, but all of a sudden when I open chrome, my PC froze, I tried clicking everything, nothing..l..I tried Ctrl-Alt-delete....and then the screen went black, and I get a error saying "Failure - Security Options" once I clicked OK, it remained frozen. I rebooted via Power button.

I did alot of research and no success, heres all the things I tryed;

Reboot - Nothing
System Restore - Nothing
Disabling Superfetch - Still nothing
Disabling all Services - Nothing
Disabling windows Defender - Nothing
Uninstalling all antivirus crap - Nothing!?
Check Disk - Nope
Memory restore - Uh uh
examining SATA Hard disk cables - Nothing to unusual

And im pretty sure thats about all I tried. I don't really want to go and buy a new hard drive because there too darn expensive and I have a lot of important files on my current one.



Please does anyone have a solution?? this is driving me crazy and I really want to save my pc. please help! it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Ps Buying a new hard drive would be my last option if NOTHING works (Im going to try everything else first)

haha, well I already read though the thred that richc46 gave me, and I used safemode to uninstall all the antivirus stuff, since it freezes in normal. but thanks again for the links.

anyways, When I bought my pc, I didn't receive a DVD with vista, so how do I restore it to factory settings!? :'(

I always thought about reformating in the past, but I never got around to it and I didn't recive a CD.

According to others who had this problem, they reformated and it didn't change anything!? they still had the problem

I tryed both threds and I used safe mod to delete antivirus crap

do any of you guys know how to restore to factory setting without a CD?? I didn't get one with my pc

(I tryed posting somthing erlyer, but for some reason it didnt submit)

Guess what guys, I fixed the problem!!!

It turns out I lied to you some bit, I didn't Completely run Checkdisk, so I made this post while it was at 34% when it finished, it worked good as new!

Thanks again for all the help! I am so relieved!