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    Can someone give me a hand?

    I have an acer aspire one and I can not get it back up and running after a virus... tried to start it in safe mode and it crashed, I have attached a usb CD Rom and set the primary booyt device as such and tried to install windows from there but it keeps booting from disk and crashing on the Safe mode page... if you know what I mean.. it wont go past th black page with "start in safe mode" and all that bollox
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    hi there , it sounds like you got your boot order incorrect , or isnt booting from the disc (dirty or scrachtd disc) because it wouldnt be requesting to go into safe mode , it should be saying '' press any key to boot from cd'' also check if your external rom has been detected in the bios , the menu u are seeing is normally requested by repeatedly pressing f8 which is the advanced startup option screen hope this helps

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    yeah it has been detected... as it comes up in the bios boot menu.. I changed it to boot from CD Rom and it still tries to boot from HDD .. the CD is brand new too
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    cheers al realy do think I have fucked this now... now its saying BOOTMGR is missing... I formatted the HD in a shuttle toi see if that would help but av fucked it up more lol

    do you reckon the bios could be corrupt?
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    The CD drive is an external USB device - you are setting it as USB Device and not CDROM drive?

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    aaaw cheers dude!!!!

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    yeah I have selected USB CD Rom



    and this is what I am getting

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    are you pressing f10 save and exit saves changes to bios?

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    of course
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    just checking the simple things - have you tried cloning the disc incase the drive doesnt like that brand of disc

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    have you tried dragging contents of disc to a usb stick and install via that way ~?

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    have you tried all usb ports? have you checked disk & drive on different pc?
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    cheers for all your help chaps its much appreciated... am still no further than I have been... Al, I will give you a tinkle tonight
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    Default Re: Acer Aspire One

    Have you tried booting into the recovery partition?

    When the PC has starts once the ACER logo appears, simultaneously press ALT + F10 to start the restore utility.

    More Reading:
    http://en.kioskea.net/faq/2040-acer-...ctory-settings
    http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/09/aspire-one-recovery/

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    just recovered it to the factory settings... now to see if this will work

    right recovery done... the windows start up screen comes on then the windows xp logo comes on then the screen goes blank
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    Quote Originally Posted by flanflinger View Post
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    Default Re: Acer Aspire One

    i seem to remember something about a bios upgrade required on these to cure a blank screen fault

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    Default Re: Acer Aspire One

    ahhh more info here
    Acer Aspire One BIOS Recovery
    The AA1 has a built-in BIOS recovery routine, which makes it possible to flash the BIOS even if it doesn't POST and the system doesn't boot anymore. It's meant for emergencies and is also known as crisis disk mode. Use at your own risk.

    First format an USB flash drive with FAT.

    Download the latest BIOS, and extract all files from the zip file. Put both FLASHIT.EXE and the BIOS file with FD suffix in the root directory of the drive. The files must not be in a folder. Rename the BIOS file to ZG5IA32.FD, that's important.

    Turn the AA1 off, with the USB drive still connected, and make sure both battery and AC adapter are also connected.

    Press Fn+Esc, keep it pressed and press the power button. Release Fn+Esc after a few seconds. The power button starts blinking at this point. Press the power button once. The AA1 will now initiate flashing the BIOS, do not interrupt it under any circumstances. After a while the power button stops blinking, and the AA1 reboots shortly after. Wait patiently.

    The BIOS has been re-flashed and all settings are reset to default.

    If the AA1 doesn't reboot by itself, but the power button still blinks, wait a few minutes before turning it off, and try again.

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