The Acer 5102 Thread

Hi, I am Shankar.
I have ASPIRE 5102 and have a same problem (ERROR 200)
I did all my analysis to solve this issue like changing the RAM, Using w/o external compoents like data card, pen drive/ext HDD, mouse... & also tried with multiple OS like Win7, Vista, Linux Mint & XP but still the prob is continuing.

I am not sure wheather this is a software / hard ware problem. some of my freinds has same model & they also had a same issue now they changed the mother board & now running ok for them. I don't want to do the same & i would like to understand & rectify the problem.

Let me know if you come across any solution for this problem

Reg
Shankar

djmantri said: ↑

Recently i'm experiencing problems with my 5102.
I've upgraded the Hard-disk with a Seagate 7200RPM 100GB disk and since 2 weeks i'm having issue's with booting.

Almost every time when i power up the notebook i get an errormessage about issue's with my HD
Error 200: Failure Fixed Disk 0
And when i check in the bios if its recognised correctly it isnt and i get a few ``` marks where the numbers and digits of the hard disk need to be.

I already looked up google and it seems that it can occur with bad Harddrives.

But i dont think that is the case since sometimes (after retrying it for about 6 or 8 times) it just boots up and "almost" nothing seems to be wrong.
Notice the "almost". Because sometimes my notebook just hangs and if i wait long enough i get some weird blue screen with no text on it. (i'll try to get a screen but i think its clear now).

When i check the place where i've put the HD in, i see that this HD is about 2 millimeters shorter. So what i did is putting something in between the harddisk and the notebooks inside. Now its just stuck and cant move. Also i've opened the notebook and didn't seem to find anything wrong with it.

I've already updated to anything that i can find. Bios, drivers, windows (Vista that is). And i think it could have something to do with the new bios.
I'll try to reformat the hard disk but doubt that it will help. Also i'm considering to downgrade the bios.
If that fails and nobody has any idea, i'm going to the acer service, but i'm afraid that i will lose all my data (will backup today). Also, i need the notebook for just a few days so if anybody knows something, please let me know.

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