Aspire 1360 shutting down

Cardflopper · 12-27-2006, 08:56 AM

Hi,

A friend of mine gave me his Acer Aspire 1360 because it would get stuck on the loadscreen from windows. I was supposed to fix this in a few minutes, but there is more to it then i thought.

I rebooted the pc in safe modus, same thing happens, it freezes.

Broken Battery?

Removed battery, tried again, same story.

Too hot?

Booted with a Knoppix CD, boots extremely fast and no freezes at all. eveything seems to work as it should. Worked the whole time without any freezes or shutdown.

Screwed up windows install?

tried rebooting from a (valid & working) windows XP cd, the first 3 times the PC shut down where i had to choose the file system (fat, ntfs), the last time it shut down at 10% formatted.

Any ideas on what is going on here would be very welcome!

**TheMatt** · 12-27-2006, 12:35 PM

If you booted from the live Knoppix CD, then I think there is a good chance that the hard disk is failing. Download the utility from the hard disk manufacturer (most likley Hitachi) and run it to see if you have a faulty hard disk.
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287
Another thing you could try is installing Knoppix, if that fails, then you can be pretty sure it is the hard disk.

Cardflopper · 12-28-2006, 05:03 AM

Thank you for putting me in the right direction, the harddisk must have some bad sectors.

I couldn't get the utility to work upon booting, but im checking the drive with Hiren's bootdisk (HDD regenerator 1.51) now.

shockingmoment · 04-15-2007, 03:46 PM

Mine does exactly the same. Tried a CD boot - needed to change boot order.... forgotten the BIOS p/w!

How do I reset this?

Thanks,

SM

**TheMatt** · 04-15-2007, 04:41 PM

Hi,

We cannot assist with the recovery of lost passwords.

12-27-2006, 08:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
Cardflopper Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Belgium Posts: 76 OS: Win 2000 (mainly)	Aspire 1360 shutting down Hi, A friend of mine gave me his Acer Aspire 1360 because it would get stuck on the loadscreen from windows. I was supposed to fix this in a few minutes, but there is more to it then i thought. I rebooted the pc in safe modus, same thing happens, it freezes. Broken Battery? Removed battery, tried again, same story. Too hot? Booted with a Knoppix CD, boots extremely fast and no freezes at all. eveything seems to work as it should. Worked the whole time without any freezes or shutdown. Screwed up windows install? tried rebooting from a (valid & working) windows XP cd, the first 3 times the PC shut down where i had to choose the file system (fat, ntfs), the last time it shut down at 10% formatted. Any ideas on what is going on here would be very welcome!

12-27-2006, 12:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	If you booted from the live Knoppix CD, then I think there is a good chance that the hard disk is failing. Download the utility from the hard disk manufacturer (most likley Hitachi) and run it to see if you have a faulty hard disk. http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287 Another thing you could try is installing Knoppix, if that fails, then you can be pretty sure it is the hard disk. __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

04-15-2007, 03:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
shockingmoment Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Re: Aspire 1360 shutting down Mine does exactly the same. Tried a CD boot - needed to change boot order.... forgotten the BIOS p/w! How do I reset this? Thanks, SM

04-15-2007, 04:41 PM	#5 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: Aspire 1360 shutting down Hi, We cannot assist with the recovery of lost passwords. __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

12-28-2006, 05:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
Cardflopper Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Belgium Posts: 76 OS: Win 2000 (mainly)	Thank you for putting me in the right direction, the harddisk must have some bad sectors. I couldn't get the utility to work upon booting, but im checking the drive with Hiren's bootdisk (HDD regenerator 1.51) now.