I have an Acer laptop (Aspire 7520-5185) that will turn on long enough to shot the BIOS or let me choose the boot order. After that, no matter what I do it just shows a black screen with a blinking white line ( "_" ). I tried loading the Windows 7 install CD but it doesn't prompt for it. I tried Hiren's BootCD (same). I tried loading Hirens on a USB stick (with Hirens instructions on how to do so), OS on USB stick, tried loading Vista install CD to 2 different hard drives (with only one connected at a time) and the USB stick. Tried removing one of the RAM sticks (then the other), tried removing the DVD player, tried removing the keyboard, tried a USB keyboard, had the battery out the entire time. Turned off quiet boot. Turned off LAN. Tried default settings. It doesn't seem to be overheating and I know the fan is running just fine.
The only options I get are the boot order and the BIOS. No safe mode. No boot from CD. Nothing other than a black screen with a white blinking _. I assume the motherboard must be experiencing some sort of zombie death where it can still function slightly but is actually dead. I can clarify what I've said so far if needed. I've never posted here so please forgive me if I'm not following the rules 100%.
Acer Aspire 7520-5185
3GB DDR RAM
AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core
NVidia GeForce 7000M
Laptop hard drives of various sizes (70Gb and 120GB I believe)
The only options I get are the boot order and the BIOS. No safe mode. No boot from CD. Nothing other than a black screen with a white blinking _. I assume the motherboard must be experiencing some sort of zombie death where it can still function slightly but is actually dead. I can clarify what I've said so far if needed. I've never posted here so please forgive me if I'm not following the rules 100%.
Acer Aspire 7520-5185
3GB DDR RAM
AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core
NVidia GeForce 7000M
Laptop hard drives of various sizes (70Gb and 120GB I believe)