ok, assuming its a system software issue I downloaded a recovery cd. I then
booted from the cd, a screen indicating windows is installing appears and
then a screen with the option to repair appears. I select repair and two
dialog boxes show up both labled "system recovery options" . One is
searching for windows installations. The other in the background lists the
one installation that I have. But the one in the foreground never stops
searching! And I can't do anything til it does. I was going to attempt a
repair with an installation disk from a friend or relative but given this
last episode I'm not sure anything different would happen.
"rc" rc@home wrote in message
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Ray, thanks

Gene,

Logged off from the start button and then shut down in software from the
button on the screen
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:51:43 -0400, rc wrote:

Hello group,

Acer Aspire 5100 laptop running windows vista boots up through windows
screen and then continues to blank/black screen. At this point nothing
more
happens. Machine was running perfectly fine. Then I logged off ,
shutdown,
and unplugged charger/power simply to move to another location. When I
attempted to use it again (less than 5 minutes later) I got the result I
described above. If this sounds familiar to anyone, your knowledge and
suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

When you say "logged off, shutdown", do you mean you logged off from the
Start button and then shut down in software from the button on the
screen,
or did you shut off using the hardware power button?

If the latter, that could possibly cause a file corruption or disk
corruption problem.

ISTM that logging off and shutting down, rather than shutting down
directly, is a bit unusual. Or even very unusual. Shutting down logs
users
off as part of the process...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)