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    C300 with SmartCard: any hard disk except original one not working

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by preigh, Jun 6, 2009.

  1. preigh

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    Hi,

    I have a strange problem. I got an old C300 which I was using for a long time as server (Linux) etc, because display is partly broken.

    Hard disk started showing a lotf of I/O error and I wanted to put a new one today. But when I put an another disk, display is black and nothing happens. It does not show even BIOS.

    As soon as I put a old disk everything is "OK", I see BIOS, I can boot etc...


    My C300 has a smart card and it will not start booting when smart card is not inserted. I think that this security measure is also responsible for absolutely unresponsive notebook when hard disk is replaced.

    Any ideas? Links? Thanks
     
    preigh, Jun 6, 2009
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