Laptop crashes when started normally

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(09-10-2009 02:49 PM)Dragon64 Wrote:  I recently purchased an Acer Aspire AS5535-5452 and have been using it for less than three weeks. It worked absolutely fine (although it seemed a little slow) for the first couple weeks, then, in the last three days or so, it has crashed every time I have attempted to start it up in normal mode. Following starting it up in safe mode, it tells me that it has recovered from a memory failure of some kind, the error is called "BlueScreen" or something like that.

A friend suggested that it may be Vista that is causing the problem and that I could try installing XP and using that instead, he said that his VAIO stopped crashing and sped up after he did this.

I was wondering if this sounds like a valid solution? Do you have your own suggestions? I would be grateful for any constructive replies.

factory specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor QL-64 (2.1 Ghz, 1MB L2 cache)
1408 MB ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics HyperMemory
Acer Nplify 802.1 1b/g/Draft-N WLAN

I have downloaded only three programs, to the computer: Firefox, Steam (with CS:S), and AVG Free as well as a number of Word documents and some pictures.

if you brought it from new,i would return it.