IT problem (slightly OT)

newshound · 2015-02-03T12:21:41+00:00

Only DIY in the sense that I am trying to fix it; plenty of expertise here though! I have an Acer E1-572P about 9 months old which was fine once I got over the hassle of stripping out the bloat, updating 8 so that I could upgrade to 8.1, then updating that. But three weeks ago (after a windows update) I had a form of BSOD with "page fault in non paged area", initially recovered by going to a restore point, but then it reappeared, it wouldn't recover from the USB recovery drive which I made at setup time, and I had to go back to a fresh install with best part of a day wasted in the cleanup and reinstall process. The only "new" software installed was Office 365. Today I found I needed a Java install (to access a VPN) and on attempting to restart, hit the BSOD again. It passes the built-in windows memory test, sfc/scannow suggests there are corrupted system files but I can't immediately make any sense of the 384k CBS.LOG file. I don't have any install disks. I am inclined to take it back to the supplier and jump up and down, but does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong? I am reluctant to spend too long on it. I actually find them quite nice machines (not too bulky but good screen and keyboard), I suppose I could turn it into a linux box. TIA

Feb 03, 2015 64 Replies

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Huge 11 years ago

FWIW, my IT Dept supplied Windows 7 laptop is a festering pile of donkey doo, compared to the Mint17 box right next to it.

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Huge 11 years ago

It is indeed. Dennis is using it.

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The Natural Philosopher 11 years ago

Yes. It really is getting to the stage that you want the linux *even if you paid for the windows*

I still keep an XP VM for corel suite and Rhino tho.

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Huge 11 years ago

Yeah, I keep an XP VM for my scanner, for when I scan slides. The linux scanner software is fine for anything else.

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dennis 11 years ago

Yet you think the linux scanner software is fine for me! Like I said linux scanner software is cr@p a bit like you.

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