antisquark
Junior Member
I've spent a ton of hours today and yesterday trying to debug this thing, and I still feel stuck.
I'm using an Acer Aspire ASE700-UQ660A with the RAM upgraded to 4GB DDR2 with an EVGA Nvidia 8800 GT for the graphics card.
About three weeks ago, I'd just about filled my harddrive, so I decided to get a new drive, and while I was at it, try out Windows 7 64-bit on the new 1.5 Terabyte Hitachi drive and take advantage of my extra RAM. The idea being that I could "upgrade" from Vista installed on the old drive, but avoid clobbering the old one by installing to the new drive.
The installation wasn't smooth, but I eventually had an apparently stable build of Win7 Home Premium plus 64-bit running on the machine.
Yesterday, my machine suddenly stopped showing the login screen--it would get past the animated "Windows Loading" screen, play the windows start sound.. and the screen would turn off, and the monitor LED would flash to signal "no input". CTRL-ALT-DEL elicited no response.
I tried the "low resolution" mode, but got the same issue, so I booted into Safe mode with Networking. Some research suggested my display drivers could be the culprit, so I uninstalled them and rebooted. Sure enough, on reboot I could log in. But no previous version of the drivers has prevented this issue. In fact, if ANY display driver is installed, I see that same error. Restore points past a critical update on 10/25 simply failed restore, and restoring to a point after that date didn't finx my problem. After a day of frustration, I'd finally decided to go back to Vista and verify that it still worked as expected (it's still on my original harddrive-unmolested).. but I see the same error!
At this point, it seems mobo, bios, or graphics card (or, possibly, PSU) related, but I'm not really sure where to begin.
Suggestions from veterans of the upgrade wars would be greatly appreciated!
Here's a Belarc Advisor printout, for extra detail.
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600) Install Language: English (United States) System Locale: English (United States) Processor a 2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache 64-bit ready Multi-core (4 total) Not hyper-threaded Drives 1489.83 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 1087.09 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
ATAPI DVD W DH16W1S [Optical drive]
Generic- Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device [Hard drive] --drive 5 Generic- SD/MMC USB Device [Hard drive] --drive 4 Generic- SM/xD-Picture USB Device [Hard drive] --drive 3 Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 1, s/n JP2940HD00VU7C, rev JP4OA3EA, SMART Status: Healthy
System Model Acer Aspire E700 R01-A4 System Serial Number: PTS590X01572405E412701 Enclosure Type: Desktop
Main Circuit Board b Board: Acer FG965M
Serial Number: 04EF71901004
Bus Clock: 266 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD R01-A4 03/26/2007
Memory Modules
4032 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' is Empty
Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 1)1000.20 GB 930.03 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0)244.67 GB91.36 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 0)244.96 GB 65.71 GB free
Network Drives None discovered
11/4/2010Belarc Advisor Current Profile WDC WD5000AAJS-22TKA0 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAPW1889782, SMART
Communications Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem
Marks a locked
Bus Adapters Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2830 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2831 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2832 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2834 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2835 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 2836 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller -
Intel(R) 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection primary
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Networking Dns Server:
Display: EVGA NVidia 8800 GT
Multimedia High Definition Audio Device
new Group Policies None discovered
Other Devices Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller HID Non-User Input Data Filter (KB 911895) (2x) HID-compliant consumer control device (2x) HID-compliant device (7x) USB Input Device (2x) Wacom Virtual Hid Driver Microsoft USB Dual Receiver Wireless Mouse (IntelliPoint) Wacom Mouse Wacom Mouse Monitor Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Detection Driver (USB) USB Mass Storage Device USB Printing Support USB Root Hub (7x)
I'm using an Acer Aspire ASE700-UQ660A with the RAM upgraded to 4GB DDR2 with an EVGA Nvidia 8800 GT for the graphics card.
About three weeks ago, I'd just about filled my harddrive, so I decided to get a new drive, and while I was at it, try out Windows 7 64-bit on the new 1.5 Terabyte Hitachi drive and take advantage of my extra RAM. The idea being that I could "upgrade" from Vista installed on the old drive, but avoid clobbering the old one by installing to the new drive.
The installation wasn't smooth, but I eventually had an apparently stable build of Win7 Home Premium plus 64-bit running on the machine.
Yesterday, my machine suddenly stopped showing the login screen--it would get past the animated "Windows Loading" screen, play the windows start sound.. and the screen would turn off, and the monitor LED would flash to signal "no input". CTRL-ALT-DEL elicited no response.
I tried the "low resolution" mode, but got the same issue, so I booted into Safe mode with Networking. Some research suggested my display drivers could be the culprit, so I uninstalled them and rebooted. Sure enough, on reboot I could log in. But no previous version of the drivers has prevented this issue. In fact, if ANY display driver is installed, I see that same error. Restore points past a critical update on 10/25 simply failed restore, and restoring to a point after that date didn't finx my problem. After a day of frustration, I'd finally decided to go back to Vista and verify that it still worked as expected (it's still on my original harddrive-unmolested).. but I see the same error!
At this point, it seems mobo, bios, or graphics card (or, possibly, PSU) related, but I'm not really sure where to begin.
Suggestions from veterans of the upgrade wars would be greatly appreciated!
Here's a Belarc Advisor printout, for extra detail.
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600) Install Language: English (United States) System Locale: English (United States) Processor a 2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache 64-bit ready Multi-core (4 total) Not hyper-threaded Drives 1489.83 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 1087.09 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
ATAPI DVD W DH16W1S [Optical drive]
Generic- Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2 Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device [Hard drive] --drive 5 Generic- SD/MMC USB Device [Hard drive] --drive 4 Generic- SM/xD-Picture USB Device [Hard drive] --drive 3 Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 [Hard drive] (1000.20 GB) -- drive 1, s/n JP2940HD00VU7C, rev JP4OA3EA, SMART Status: Healthy
System Model Acer Aspire E700 R01-A4 System Serial Number: PTS590X01572405E412701 Enclosure Type: Desktop
Main Circuit Board b Board: Acer FG965M
Serial Number: 04EF71901004
Bus Clock: 266 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD R01-A4 03/26/2007
Memory Modules
4032 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' is Empty
Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 1)1000.20 GB 930.03 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0)244.67 GB91.36 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 0)244.96 GB 65.71 GB free
Network Drives None discovered
11/4/2010Belarc Advisor Current Profile WDC WD5000AAJS-22TKA0 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAPW1889782, SMART
Communications Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem
Marks a locked
Bus Adapters Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2830 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2831 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2832 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2834 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2835 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 2836 Intel(R) ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller -
Intel(R) 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection primary
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Networking Dns Server:
Display: EVGA NVidia 8800 GT
Multimedia High Definition Audio Device
new Group Policies None discovered
Other Devices Texas Instruments 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller HID Non-User Input Data Filter (KB 911895) (2x) HID-compliant consumer control device (2x) HID-compliant device (7x) USB Input Device (2x) Wacom Virtual Hid Driver Microsoft USB Dual Receiver Wireless Mouse (IntelliPoint) Wacom Mouse Wacom Mouse Monitor Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Detection Driver (USB) USB Mass Storage Device USB Printing Support USB Root Hub (7x)
