Hi, im hoping some of you technical wizards can help me on this!
Right i have Vista 32bit running on my Acer, Had it about 1 year now.
Every so often it performs crash dumps ( a little more often then it should do actually)
Last friday night it did a crash dump, then when restarting it just wouldnt....It kept showing a blank screen for about 30 minutes. then it would go to Windows Start-up repair, and just go on and on for about another 30 minutes, then tell me it couldnt find anything wrong.
I tried Loading in safe mode, with command prompt and networking help but it judt did exactly the same.
I ran the memory diagnostic and found no problems.
So then i restored the system to before a Windows update on the same day this all happened. Exactly the same kept happening, Some times i would get as far as logging on after about an hour of waiting. It would Log on and then just freeze.
I restored to a few days before last friday and tried again, exactly the same kept happening.
Then this morning it got to the log on screen. i tried logging on and it said something along the lines of 'Windows has failed to Activate. error code 0x80070426'
I havent got any back-ups on disk (stupid i know, i was actually going to do one before this happened) I havent got the operating system disk as the computer came pre-installed with Vista and had no Disk.
I know i could probably restore the system to factory setting somehow, but i dont want to lose everything on there! There must be something i can do.
Any help would be massively appreciated!
Thanks!
Right i have Vista 32bit running on my Acer, Had it about 1 year now.
Every so often it performs crash dumps ( a little more often then it should do actually)
Last friday night it did a crash dump, then when restarting it just wouldnt....It kept showing a blank screen for about 30 minutes. then it would go to Windows Start-up repair, and just go on and on for about another 30 minutes, then tell me it couldnt find anything wrong.
I tried Loading in safe mode, with command prompt and networking help but it judt did exactly the same.
I ran the memory diagnostic and found no problems.
So then i restored the system to before a Windows update on the same day this all happened. Exactly the same kept happening, Some times i would get as far as logging on after about an hour of waiting. It would Log on and then just freeze.
I restored to a few days before last friday and tried again, exactly the same kept happening.
Then this morning it got to the log on screen. i tried logging on and it said something along the lines of 'Windows has failed to Activate. error code 0x80070426'
I havent got any back-ups on disk (stupid i know, i was actually going to do one before this happened) I havent got the operating system disk as the computer came pre-installed with Vista and had no Disk.
I know i could probably restore the system to factory setting somehow, but i dont want to lose everything on there! There must be something i can do.
Any help would be massively appreciated!
Thanks!
