We got my niece a Compaq laptop for her Christmas running the dreaded Vista.
Problem is, it keeps crashing. You can be sitting doing something then all of a sudden the screen goes black and you can't do anything. You can't log off, switch off, restart or use Task Manager to shut it down. The only solution is to physically switch it off then when it restarts, it's saying that Windows needs to run emergency recovery (I think), then it starts up again.
Took it to PC World (where we got it from and I'm paying a bloomin support contract for it) and the best advice I got was that it was a software problem and to run the recovery disc. This is a pain in the backside since I'd have to reset up everything on it and it seems a bit off that a computer that isn't even two months old has a software problem.
Anybody have any ideas or have similar problems with Vista?
Problem is, it keeps crashing. You can be sitting doing something then all of a sudden the screen goes black and you can't do anything. You can't log off, switch off, restart or use Task Manager to shut it down. The only solution is to physically switch it off then when it restarts, it's saying that Windows needs to run emergency recovery (I think), then it starts up again.
Took it to PC World (where we got it from and I'm paying a bloomin support contract for it) and the best advice I got was that it was a software problem and to run the recovery disc. This is a pain in the backside since I'd have to reset up everything on it and it seems a bit off that a computer that isn't even two months old has a software problem.
Anybody have any ideas or have similar problems with Vista?