I had a username here a while ago, guess you guys cleaned house.
Windows 7
Acer Aspire M3203
AMD Athlon II X3 425 Processor 2.7 GHz
3GB RAM
PC keeps crashing. At first I was having issues with firefox and flash I think, whenever I played multiple youtube tabs, I would have problems with firefox crashing. Don't know if it's related, thought I'd mention it.
Kept crashing more frequently, so I decided to back everything up and format and reinstall windows. Managed to get all the way through the install and when it was all done, it crashed a few minutes later. I have a partitioned drive *split the original in half* and formatted it too. Everything is formatted and clean and I have no external drives intefering.
I felt like a fool because I opened up the PC, which I don't do unless it's a last resort because I hardly know what I'm doing with hardware, and found it was terribly dusty. The fan for the motherboard was caked. Cleaned it up really nice, the fans move smooth with no sound. But, it still crashes without warning.
The screen will turn black and it will read "no input' or something, but the speakers, pc lgihts, mouse, etc all have their lights on. I try to restart using c/alt/del and doesn't work. I try to hold down the power button, but it doesn't work. I have to unplug the machine. When I plug it back in, it starts up automatically without me pushing the button. It asks to start in safe mode, etc.
Any ideas? Fried video card? I can't even locate it I"m so helpless with hardware (software I;m not bad with)