Just bought a new Acer X1700...was working fine until yesterday. I was in the middle of loading some pictures when it froze...turned it off, waited a few minutes and turned it back on...and it just went to a BLACK screen...tried unplugging the power cord and holding the power button down for 30 seconds and that brings me to a screen that says to EITHER boot in normal mode or something else that is "recommended", which I did and still just get a black screen.well, try this.

When booting up keep pressing F8 until a screen pops up listing many different THINGS. One should be in the criteria of, "Last known good configuration" go up to that and press enter. Then try rebooting, if that doesn't work, please let me know.I get a beep then back to the screen that says Acer on it and on the bottom it says DEL for the BIOS and F12 for the boot menu...and when I try to get into them I get no response.have you tried letting it go past that..?Take it back.Of course...I ended up having to take it back to Best Buy. The person there hooked it up to their MACHINE and found that something was defective, I don't know exactly what it was. So, I got a new tower and we'll see how this one works. Thanks for everyone's in-put THOUGH. Good job