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drivers did nothing. im just gonna assume its broken. ill most likely check this later for any more info. but yep assumption is its a goner

soz, couldnt edit my old post, after doing some more searching my device manager finds my card. So im currently reinstalling the drivers to see how this affects it. ill keep up to date if possible.

hey guys, im having some problems with my screen currently. I was playing a game - whilst playing my pc crashed and had a pixelated screen. Whenever i rebooted it kept pixelating up, after opening and cleaning out and leaving to cooldown i managed to get it started again to this point, however i strill have major scores of purple + green pixels throughout my screen and my dxdiag will not pick up my graphics card (does not show a display will printscreen if needs more explanation) so anyhow, do any of you agree that my graphics card is broken? or could it be a minor problem with drivers, unplugged card maybe even the heatsink.

Yeah ive been heavily advised not to download all these disks by other people too. Im really just clueless here. I may have a copy coming from my friend but hes unsure whether or not he has one. But for now i do have a disk from my pc im using right now. Its an alienware vista disk not sure too much about it. but i did use it for this pc to reinstall windows yet again, this computer is an alienware so i dnt know if itl work on an acer. But anyhow ill be trying the disk tommorow i suppose maybe with a vista disk if given it. How do i go about loading the disk in the bios? i really have no idea about all of this the most i know how to do is insert a graphics card. Oh and i really didnt fiddle with my profile too much so im not on an XP. And yes sorry it is an aspire.

sorry for double post. wouldnt let me use edit button AGAIN personally im unsure if its a hard drive error only taking information from "moderate" computer friends in real life. Whilst searching upon my error again i came across this: No boot, blank screen and blinking cursor Im no computer expert so im unable to translate what all this MBR and such means so would you be able to tell me if this is the same problem? the screenshot provided in his post is exactly what i have and its also on an acer inspiron but laptop version. So would this mean my error is the same as his? i assume his error was resolved though.

Ok i've talked to many people who know whats wrong. Everyone has mixed views again though, they all agree my hard drive is completely wiped not a single thing on it no drivers completely acer free. But what some are unsure on is that currently im looking into downloading a vista os torrent i know you have to pay for them. But hey didnt i buy liscensing to vista when i bought the pc? im just putting it back on there using the liscense supplied with the acer computer. I've been told your able to reinstall using an os disk. But people are unsure whether or not its actually compatible with the acer pc so tell me your thoughts on this. Should i use a os downloaded from a torrent and burned to a cd? and could it work to reinstall vista? i dont care about losing all the acer programs with it, i just want the vista os. And the pc is an acer inspiron m1201. So overall the hard drive is empty and the only way to fix it ive been told would be to reinstall the operating system off a disk. But i dont intend on paying the huge fee that comes with purchasing a disk so im looking into downloading it. EDIT: The screen goes as follows: a black screen with a _ on it as it boots itself up then the acer logo splash screen with the options to f9 setup or f12 boot menu Then the same as the first screen a black screen with _ except it stays on that screen permenantly. This is why i have been told its a hard drive problem because it loads the hard drive first and theres nothing on it to load therefore it shows that screen

um idk if this is what ur saying but these recovery disks have NOTHING on them. all u could do was put files on them their literally just blank disks. Now will putting a vista os disk and booting that allow me to reinstall windows?

i know disks usually should be supplied for that. But it seems acer do not do that and purely rely on their own method of restoring the pc. All that came with the pc were 2 recovery disks both 4.7gb and a monitor guide disk.

hey guys. New here since it seems like a last resort so basically i have been asking other people but thought i'ld come here for even more help but this is what ive basiclaly been told: on my other computer which is an acer i thought ild try to get it going again and format it. i backed up all the stuff on its recovery disks supplied with the pc and i ran their "empowering technology backup" stuff thats meant to format your pc back to factory default. Instead, what ive been told is that it completed wiped the harddrive including the operating system because what happens is: It starts up and shows the acer screen allowing you to go to setup and boot menu. On the next screen it just shows a black screen with a flashing _ on it. and just waits there and doesnt load windows or anything. So basically. What do i do? ive been told various things by computer expert friends of mine but ild like your opinions too. Ive been told i can put in a vista operating system disk and then put in a vista serial that came with that pc to activate it. And ive also been told that thats impossible because the acer pc relies on a vista disk from acer because it contains important things such as the empowering technology in order to run. I know acer sucks (support is even worse for them $199 for an hours support) but i need to fix this so tell me is this a hard drive problem? will putting a OS disk i have from my dell laptop allow me to reinstall it? i dont know. just give me your opinions please.