HELP!! Aspire 4315

I was asked to fix an optical drive on an aspire 4315... the data ribbon cable had been pulled off from the tray... no problem.

my problem is that when i pulled the DVD drive out i shorted something out. the battery was still in!! very silly mistake by me.

now, i am unable to boot into vista. i have tried the repair option as well as booting my copy of the vista OS. Neither option worked for me.

i have been able to boot into safe mode on one occasion, but now the hard drive hangs on crcdisk.sys when trying to boot into safemode

is there anything i can do to repair the installation? is there a hard drive dianostic boot cd that is made for toshiba drives?

thanks

 

sounds like you could have flashed/shorted the controller which means a new mother board

 

nooooo!!!! please say it aint so


wouldn't a faulty board be totally dead and not boot i nto the bios and windows partially?

 

you may have just given the dvd/cd drive controller a headache.
have you put a new dvd/cd drive in yet ?
if so se if it works as first boot in BIOS

 

i have pulled the dvd drive and tried booting. i have pulled the memory and hard drive as well on seperate boots. other than trying to boot without memory, the bios shows the HDD and DVD missing, once i put them back in and boot, the bios shows them back. when i try and boot from a winxp cd it says no hard drives have been detected, ut the sata hard drive shows in the bios?? when i try and boot from the hard drive, it locks up ( the hard drive light stays solid) during the scrolling bar over the microsoft corporation screen. when i boot from the vista dvd, it shows the windows is loading fles screen and the white bar scrolls to the end, then the scrolling bar over ms corp screen, then shutdown... ????

 

i did not replace the dvd drive, i simply re-attached the ribbon cable to the tray

 

By default, the XP cd cannot see SATA drives unless you slipstream some drivers/load them with F6(?) from a floppy or something when asked

 

see the APSIRE 5315 CPU UPDGRADE sticky at top of acer forum,,

post #1 has a link to SOULPASS which shows how to make a custom CD that will load ANY INTEL BASED PC with XP... as for the other drivers puts in XP,,, if your PC needs the drivers it uses them,, if your PC doesn't have that hardware the extra drivers get ignored...

just follow the CD & INTERNET method of XP INSTALL