Hi,

New to this forum so hope this is the right place for this post.

Acer 5210 laptop wth W XP home, 18months old.

Recently a second acer e-power icon appeared in my task bar; now after running for some time ok the display goes dim; looking at the display brightness it has turned itself down to 0 & the CPU speed to low too. Resetting works for perhaps half a second then it goes down again.

I have tried a system restore but these don't work due to System Distribution Service 3.0 being in place & preventing restore.

Are these linked??

Thinking of doing either a repair or formating C. I have My documents on D drive partition. Presumably dong a repair or format of C wont affect D???

Thanks in anticipation.