If i can remember right .... the last computer i bought was sometime around the early to mid 1990's ? It was from Radio Shack had a 33 mhz processor and 4 MB of ram running windows 3x. Built a micro ATX out of new parts sometime in the early 2000's.

Since then i've pretty much been working with whatever comes my way. (I did buy a couple of new SSD's last year.)

Mike: Nine years of use is really good for an Acer. By any chance did you do a memory upgrade recently ? For some reason the older Acers can give that line problem with the display if the installed memory is above one or two GB.

Wouldn't worry too much about the error message. It's pretty common for the later versions of windows to want to run checkdisk on something that is hooked up to your machine. It seems harmless and actually makes things work better.



If it says that it needs to format the disk before it can be used don't allow it to do that. It's a quirk in the later versions that can accidentally wipe out all of your data.

I've been running win 7 on all of my machines except for one. Got win 10 on that machine. Can't say as i like win 10 all that much.