Yesterday i made a bootable USB with the latest version of Puppy Linux on it to use with my netbook. I was going to keep Windows on the netbook hard drive and use Puppy Linux from the USB whenever i plugged it in.
I booted up Puppy last night and it worked great. After about five minutes i switched back off.
Then i come to use my netbook today and nothing... Press the on button and it's just a black screen. I can't even get the BIOS to come up. The hard drive access light comes on and i can hear the drive working if i listen carefully, so something must be happening; the wireless network light also flickers as it should. The caps lock light comes on as well. Every so often the screen will go off, then come back on again to the plain black screen. Touching the trackpad makes the screen lighten up again if it has gone dark to save power.
It's acting as if the BIOS had been deleted... Or perhaps it's just a screen issue; that wouldn't be surprising, the screen has had many problems with it's ribbon cable recently. I tried to repair it using some foam, and it mostly cured the problem.
I smacked the netbook against the table to see if it could unsettle a loose connection in the screen but still nothing...
Pressing the start button and hitting right twice, then enter, turns the laptop off.
I'm not an expert on Linux but i have installed various distrobutions on my netbook without too much trouble over the past year. It's had Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Puppy Linux, Lubuntu, etc on it.
I don't get it. And the worst bit is, i need my netbook tomorrow for college. Without it i'm gonna be in big trouble.
Please help me!!
I booted up Puppy last night and it worked great. After about five minutes i switched back off.
Then i come to use my netbook today and nothing... Press the on button and it's just a black screen. I can't even get the BIOS to come up. The hard drive access light comes on and i can hear the drive working if i listen carefully, so something must be happening; the wireless network light also flickers as it should. The caps lock light comes on as well. Every so often the screen will go off, then come back on again to the plain black screen. Touching the trackpad makes the screen lighten up again if it has gone dark to save power.
It's acting as if the BIOS had been deleted... Or perhaps it's just a screen issue; that wouldn't be surprising, the screen has had many problems with it's ribbon cable recently. I tried to repair it using some foam, and it mostly cured the problem.
I smacked the netbook against the table to see if it could unsettle a loose connection in the screen but still nothing...
Pressing the start button and hitting right twice, then enter, turns the laptop off.
I'm not an expert on Linux but i have installed various distrobutions on my netbook without too much trouble over the past year. It's had Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Puppy Linux, Lubuntu, etc on it.
I don't get it. And the worst bit is, i need my netbook tomorrow for college. Without it i'm gonna be in big trouble.
Please help me!!
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