What Rob said, thats exactly what happens when the bios fails. Link posted works a treat.
2009/9/8 Bruce Beardall <[email protected]>: > Thanks Rob > > I'll have to wait until this evening but I'll give it a go. > > Cheers > > Bruce > > > 2009/9/8 Rob Beard <[email protected]> >> >> Bruce Beardall wrote: >> > Pressed the power button on my Acer Aspire One this morning and the >> > button light goes on followed by the whirring of the fan but that's >> > it. Not even a BIOS to hack into. >> > >> > Any ideas? >> > >> > Anyone heard of this happening to other Aspire Ones? >> > >> > It's currently got Jaunty installed which was running fine - the only >> > different thing I've done was play with a live USB Puppy Linux >> > yesterday evening. Seems unlikely that that fried everything. >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Bruce >> > >> Hi Bruce, >> >> I've heard about Aspire One machines dying before, IIRC it was something >> to do with the BIOS. You could try this - >> http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html >> >> Worth a shot, and it appears it can be done through Linux (just put the >> files on a FAT formatted USB stick). >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Rob >> >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > -- Kris Douglas -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
