hi, i am new to this site, and have read through most of the problems that i think are kind of similar to mine. how ever, they dont seem to help. i apologise if this question has already been asked.
i bought an acer 3050 laptop about 10 months ago, it worked fine up until now. but i have been having problems with my usb ports. basically, they arent working. i tried disabling the affected port (with the intention of enabling it again), and when i did this it said i had to restart my laptop. so i did, but when it restarted, the screen stayed black and wouldnt come on. i tried pressin the Fn and f5 button, just to see if it was set to go to an external monitor, but this did not work. i tried adjusting the brightness just to make sure it wasnt that. none of these worked. so i held the power button down to turn the laptop off, and then switched it back on again. and had the same problem. im having this problem nearly everytime i turn the laptop on. only sometimes will the screen actually come on. and sometimes a blue screen comes on and it looks like its got lots of glitches on it. is there anyway of sorting this or is it time to take a big sledgehammer to my laptop just to make me feel better? sorry for the big essay, just wanted to give you a full explanation of what is happening. your help in this matter would be much appreciated.
many thanks
stu