[JoshFort]

I dont know where exactly to post this but here it goes.

Having major trouble with Aspire 5536 that I bought new only 4 months ago. It runs on Vista. Goes through splash screen then wont load any further. Just has a blinking cursor at the top left of the screen.

I talked to Acer and got the reload disks. I have reloaded it twice now and its appears to be loading the disks onto the HDD. When its done it lets me know and reboots. On reboot, nothing has changed. Splash screen and then blinking cursor. No windows loading screen or anything.

A guy at my work tried booting Linux off a dvd and it runs fine. Says all hardware is good. I am totally puzzled on what to do. I have read as much as possible and found some good info but none of it has worked so far.

I really don't want to send this back to Acer and have them fix it. Besides the shipping charge, it will probably take a couple months. If there is anyway that I can fix it I would like to.

Things I have tried:

- reload windows
- update system Bios
- manually select HDD at startup screen
- Hit every F key on the freaking keyboard at start - lol
- dropped an elbow or two

Anyone have any ideas? Please? Could it be my graphics card?

Really desperate. Thanks guys!

Josh

 

[kenny111111]

have you tried the recovery partition ? You WILL lose all data.. http://www.techsupportforum.com/f108/laptop-recovery-instructions-162525.html

 

[JoshFort]

Thanks for your reply and yes. Acer walked me through that scenario as well. It pops up a screen that says something about "HDD RECOVERY FAILED! Press any key to continue"

Thanks again for the feedback though.

 

[JoshFort]

Anyone else? If not I guess I will send it in tomorrow to Acer. Thanks anyway guys.

 

[djaburg]

Doesn't sound like you have many issues since it's failing on the HD test. That normally indicates that there's a bad spot (one or more) on the HD. You might be able to run a chkdsk on the drive and it could get loaded, but from my experience once you start getting issues with the HD they seem to continue. I'd send it back so they can get a new drive installed and hopefully that will provide you some long life from your computer.

 

[JoshFort]

FIXED! Thanks for the suggestion guys but got it to work. Something happened to the partitioning on the HDD. Guy at my work had a program to create a 40 G partition that allowed me to install the Acer restore disks onto and once that was up and running Vista allowed me to set the partition to the entire 320G HDD.

Im thinking virus...cant explain it any other way.