Shoutbox

Well here's the problem.

I am fixing an acer laptop (Ferrari 4000 Series) and there seems to be some weird problems.

At random times but very close to the start up the computer just freezes. It's not at any stage. The mouse, keyboard and LCD just freeze and nothing happens. If i boot from a disk and try to reformat it happens there to.

• It's not an OS problem because it happens when I'm booting from a CD or in the BIOS.
  
• It's not graphics, as sound also stops.

After thinking installing a new OS would help it would still freeze. So I took out the HDD and connected it to my laptop. I tried to install windows 7 to it from windows but it said it cannot install to external hard drives. (this is not a problem as i know the problem is not the OS)

Any ideas?