Aspire One 110 -- flashing cursor, no boot from HD

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    jonljacobi

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    All of a sudden, my 110 clears post but just sits there with a blinking cursor. I can get it to boot from thumb drives, and about every five attempts it will boot from CD and this used to work perfectly. I replaced the original SSD with a 32GB. When I do boot, the hard drive seems to be fine. I tried fixmbr, but I don't think that's the problem. Last gig I remember taking this on was one where I tried to use an external monitor. Don't know why that would matter, but maybe the BIOS got confused.

    I tried pulling the battery but that didn't seem to clear the cmos entirely. Anyone know what to short to clear the CMOS? I flashed the BIOS to 110 and that didn't help either.

    Any ideas?

    Cheers, Jon
     
    jonljacobi, Sep 9, 2009
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    I had a similar problem. Try reseating the SSD connector.
     
    avio, Sep 9, 2009
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    I did on the motherboard side, no help. I installed the old hard drive. No problem booting. I reseated the cable on the drive, no help. I'm gonna' pull the drive, attach it to my main PC (I have the adapter), then check the sectors, repartition and reinstall. Thanks for the reply.

    Cheers, Jon
     
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    Basically, the 32GB SSD went bad. I put the original 8GB SSD in, installed Windows 7 and FlashFire and am extremely happy. Well, as happy as one can be when a 32GB SSD goes belly up for no apparent reason.

    Cheers, Jon
     
    jonljacobi, Sep 12, 2009
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