About an hour ago, I went to boot off my USB drive and miss3d the timing, so I held down the power button to interupt the Windows Vista Boot. Then I tried rebooting and my Aspire wouldn’t respond. It just sits at a black screen with the fan spinning, but no life. I have tried an external monitor, replacement hard drive, changing out the memory, and even swearing at it (well, not really) but nothing makes a difference. I seem to have an Acer Aspire Brick instead of an Aspire One.
I will attempt a call to technical support later, but I have very low hopes of their ability to help (shhh… don’t tell them I’ve had it open for upgrading the RAM).
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html
As Jose Nazrare Says: Try this site…their recommended solution worked for me.
Hope this helps,
I wish I would have found some of these sites before I sent my unit back to Acer. The good news is that they repaired it and it’s on a FedEx truck for delivery back to my house today!
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