Computer Won't Start?

Discussion in 'Laptop Hardware' started by ish, May 28, 2009.

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    ish

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    Pardon my stupidity, I'm not computer saavy at all. I have an AAO with linux.

    I was having trouble with my computer not going past the blue AAO screen this morning. I have had this problem several times in the past, and have sent my computer to Acer twice for that problem. I tried doing this:

    http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/fo...m/us&siteid=7293&words=all&keywords=&areaid=7

    It went through to the reboot stage once and wouldn't get past the blue screen. I tried again and now my computer won't display anything at all. I turn my computer on, and I just get a black screen. I tried calling Acer support but I could not understand anything the man was saying.

    What can I do to fix this? I've had this computer for 6 months and I've had so many problems, and I'm about to throw it through a window. I can't afford to pay someone to fix it, hell, it took me 8 months of saving to buy the darn thing.
     
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    Okay, so I formatted my stick with FAT, and redid everything. Now it's just running indefinitely. It's been 25 minutes already and the power light is still blinking.
     
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    You press "FN" and "ESC", then press power, wait a few seconds and release "FN" and "ESC", Power light should be flashing. Press the power button once again. after a few seconds the light stops flashing, but you have to wait for the computer to reboot.

    If the light never stops flashing after the second press, I would suspect the the bios file was not renamed properly (ZG5IA32.FD), so the computer is not runing the bios update.
     
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    Hey, does doing this lose anything on your hard drive?

    If so is there a way to copy my hard drive contents to an external drive before I do this with my acer not powering up?
     
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    This just writes to the Bios, hard drive is not touched.

    To get data off the hard drive with out a working Bios would require removing the hard drive and mounting in an external enclosure.
     
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