ok i think i can tell everyone the whole story. at first, i was lookin in pc world for a REFURB lappy. i found the acer 5735 644g with 2.0ghz intel core 2 duo cpu, 4gb ram and 500gb hdd, a bit like this, but with 500gb and refurb:>
Acer 5735-644g i bought it, took it home to show my m8, cuz i got mine before he got his off ebay. after a coupla hours, vista wouldn't boot up. no restore, safe mode didn't work, it got to the windows vista green bar loading pic, then went black and only the mouse worked. i didn't know then, but all i had to do was reinstall vista. but of course, me and my mum went to a pcworld store and complained. i had ordered the lappy i have now before we went and had a look around at the acer options. there was only this one for the value of the specification for the price (my budget was £400) . i had tried out windows 7 rc on my dad's business computer, which i thought looked great, and of course, i installed it on mine. after the summer hols nearly finished, i wanted to reinstall vista. couldn't find the recovery or windows installation disc for my computer, and went and used my sisters DELL installation cd for the same windows homebasic.
now i had driver problems, video codec problems and now this.
i honestly can't take this lappy back and get another one for the same price.
And Frostmourne, i don't have a gun to shoot the dealer, so that is option one out. like i said on another post, i am stuck with this.