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    Is my motherboard dead? Acer 5100

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Krissss, Jul 31, 2009.

  1. Krissss

    Krissss Newbie

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    Ok it boots to the acer start screen where you can press F2 to get in to bios but nothing happens when I press F2 and it justs goes to this screen:

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    And this text is on for like 3 secs then goes away then comes back for 3 secs and so on.

    If I put in the acer recovery cd it loads the image file, then theres just a green background with a mouse pointer and the mouse is not functional..

    Doesent sound good, right? :mad:

    edit: BTW there is no HDD in it.
     
    Krissss, Jul 31, 2009
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    Does this happen when there is a disk in as well?
     
    plusmore, Jul 31, 2009
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    I havent tried it with a disk in yet, I got it like this.
     
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    Any ideas?
     
    Krissss, Aug 1, 2009
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    The PXE (Pre eXecution Environment) message is because there is no other bootable device, booting from a CDROM should give something but probably won't get very far unless a disk is in the machine. The only real way to test the machine is with a hard disk in it.
     
    plusmore, Aug 1, 2009
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