Blank screen on my netbook :(

lorweld

Hi,

I was using my Acer Aspire One netbook today when it all froze up, it wouldn't respond to any of the keys or the touchpad. I then turned it off & back on but all I get now is a blank screen.

The Acer logo page comes up on start up but then changes to a blank screen

Any ideas please:o

Oh its running on linux if that makes a difference.

Thanks in advance

d123

sounds like an OS problem, have you tried to run the recovery CD?

lorweld

Thanks d123

But I've no recovery cd, it has nowhere to put the cd.

Jockthearab

Had a similar problem with my daughter's Aspire One. What I did was power down the netbook, remove the battery, put the battery back then connect the power supply. Waited a minute before rebooting & it came back to life!

Try this & hope it works for you too.

JtA

uktyler

Did yours come with USB recovery media?

You can try reinstalling Linpus from that.

lorweld

Jockthearab wrote: »

Had a similar problem with my daughter's Aspire One. What I did was power down the netbook, remove the battery, put the battery back then connect the power supply. Waited a minute before rebooting & it came back to life!

Try this & hope it works for you too.

JtA

I'll try that now Jockthearab Thanks

uktyler wrote: »

Did yours come with USB recovery media?

You can try reinstalling Linpus from that.

Nope no usb came with it but thanks for the reply uktyler

lorweld

Tried taking the battery out for a while & then rebooting but blank screen still there.

Jockthearab

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

Pop over there & have a look to see if you can find someone with a similar problem I used that forum quite a lot about Jan this year when I got my youngest her AA1, some really good info especially for someone like me who was a total newbie when it came to linux.

One other thing to try would be removing the battery totally, plug in the power supply & see if you can boot it up.

I seem to remember that this can be a fairly common problem, hopefully you'll be up & running soon again...or taking it back to be replaced

JtA

d123

lorweld wrote: »

Thanks d123

But I've no recovery cd, it has nowhere to put the cd.

I know the Acer doesn't have a internal CD-rom, but the Acer 150 I had definitely came with a recovery CD, you use it with an external Rom.

prowla

Can you turn the screen brightness up?

Acer are bloody horrible - I've just spent hours trying to fix a friend's Acer laptop.
It didn't have original media but instead had a stupid recovery partition that somehow got corrupted.
I will try and avoid that brand in my future purchases.

lorweld

Hiya, yeah I just checked & I can turn the brightness up & down. Thanks