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This is a strange one...

 

A friend brought over her Acer laptop, won't boot up, gets stuck at the screen where the Win 7 logo first appears.

 

Ran a memory and hard disk test, all OK.

 

Remove one stick of memory, still gets stuck.

Put the memory stick back in and removed the other stick of memory, still gets stuck.

 

Booted up on the Win 7 install DVD, starts the install then gets stuck before it gets fully loaded.

 

Booted up on a Win XP install CD, starts the install then gets stuck before it gets fully loaded.

 

Too out the hard disk, put it into an external/USB carrier and could read it OK and the hard disk test showed no errors.

 

What to do next? maybe bad CPU? bad mother board?

 

Any ideas out there???

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This is a strange one...

 

A friend brought over her Acer laptop, won't boot up, gets stuck at the screen where the Win 7 logo first appears.

 

Ran a memory and hard disk test, all OK.

 

Remove one stick of memory, still gets stuck.

Put the memory stick back in and removed the other stick of memory, still gets stuck.

 

Booted up on the Win 7 install DVD, starts the install then gets stuck before it gets fully loaded.

 

Booted up on a Win XP install CD, starts the install then gets stuck before it gets fully loaded.

 

Too out the hard disk, put it into an external/USB carrier and could read it OK and the hard disk test showed no errors.

 

What to do next? maybe bad CPU? bad mother board?

 

Any ideas out there???

 

If you suspect a hardware problem you should visit a PC repair shop. They are able to run automated hardware tests.

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See if it will run a Ubuntu Live CD. That will be a good test of the cpu and motherboard.

 

Live CD List

 

 

There are also Linux based diag cds.

 

Diag

 

 

Remember you can burn these to a USB Flash drive and boot from usb.

I had tried XP, Win 7 and Win 95; none of them would complete the installation.

 

I will give Ubuntu a try...

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OK, tried both Hiren's Boot CD with all the memory/hard disk tools, NG.

 

Tried Ubuntu, NG.

 

Gets about 1/3 of the way into the boot with Ubuntu and then just sits there, frozen.

 

Me thinks the CPU and or the motherboard is kaput.

 

Or the harddisk. I think you can do a HD check from the Ubuntu CD.

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The Live CDs don't care about a HD. They run from the CD and RAM.

 

The memory and HD tests run in real mode (i286). Maybe the transition from real mode to protected mode is hanging. Linux and Windows run in protected mode.

 

 

Here's a shot in the dark. Try Flashing the BIOS.

 

I'm 51% sure the problem is the CPU.drinking.gif

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The Live CDs don't care about a HD. They run from the CD and RAM.

 

The memory and HD tests run in real mode (i286). Maybe the transition from real mode to protected mode is hanging. Linux and Windows run in protected mode.

 

 

Here's a shot in the dark. Try Flashing the BIOS.

 

I'm 51% sure the problem is the CPU.drinking.gif

and the 49 % is farang ownership then...?

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