edddy11

i bought a 2nd hand acer aspire 3000 about 3 months ago. it was working fine running xp, just used it for a bit of browsing and word processing, nothing too taxing. although i did notice it was running very hot. came to turn it on one day and after the initial 'acer' screen flashed up, the screen just went black. no response at all, although the fan and the battery light were both still on. i tried to boot last known good config and got nothing again. tried to boot in safe mode and got this message - multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\hal.dll multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\KDCOM.DLL multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\BOOTVID.dll multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\config\system multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\c_1252.nls multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\c_437.nls multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\l_intl.nls multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\FONTS\vgaoem.fon multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\AppPatch\drvmain.sdb multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\ACPI.sys multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\WMILIB.SYS multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\pci.sys multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\isapnp.sys i've tried running it on just the ac power. i've opened her up and cleaned out the fan to try and make it run a bit cooler. i also took the ram out and reseated just incase, but still getting the same freeze on boot up. i also tried running it on both the ram chips seperately, but still nothing. can anybody please help me with my problem, it's a complete mystery to me. is my ram is corrupted or is it something worse?