YfoMp5QBh2
November 14th, 2010, 07:00 PM
Hey All,
I Know this isn't a regular discussion about Ubuntu hence why I'm putting in the Community Cafe hope someone can help! I am trying to fix an Acer Aspire ONE A0751-h-52Bk computer for a friend. She told me one day while using the laptop half the display faded to black and the other half stayed useable.
It doesnt appear to be the "black screen of death" problem I've seen in other forums where the whole screen goes black because I can still see half the screen.
The solution I have tried so-far was to flash the BIOS with a USB drive (holding in Fn+ESC while pressing the pwr key which is recommended by the Acer support website) but the computer did not reboot even after 30mins of the power light flashing (Acer support site say will reboot after 10mins!).
So I took out the USB drive and turned the computer back on. This time the screen came back to life but for only 60 seconds :(
I also tried Windows system restore but this didnt work (Sadly installing Ubuntu wouldnt fix this either, because I'm sure the problem with with the Acer proprietary BIOS otherwise I would of blamed windows!)
Here's what I can tell you about the computer. Can someone please help the computer isn't under warranty and Acer want exorbitant amount of cash to fix it!!
Link from Google re Specs Acer Aspire ONE A0751h-5Bk (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347366,00.asp)
VGA BIOS version 3306
Windows XP Home Edition
Thanks,
SPADGE_2356
I Know this isn't a regular discussion about Ubuntu hence why I'm putting in the Community Cafe hope someone can help! I am trying to fix an Acer Aspire ONE A0751-h-52Bk computer for a friend. She told me one day while using the laptop half the display faded to black and the other half stayed useable.
It doesnt appear to be the "black screen of death" problem I've seen in other forums where the whole screen goes black because I can still see half the screen.
The solution I have tried so-far was to flash the BIOS with a USB drive (holding in Fn+ESC while pressing the pwr key which is recommended by the Acer support website) but the computer did not reboot even after 30mins of the power light flashing (Acer support site say will reboot after 10mins!).
So I took out the USB drive and turned the computer back on. This time the screen came back to life but for only 60 seconds :(
I also tried Windows system restore but this didnt work (Sadly installing Ubuntu wouldnt fix this either, because I'm sure the problem with with the Acer proprietary BIOS otherwise I would of blamed windows!)
Here's what I can tell you about the computer. Can someone please help the computer isn't under warranty and Acer want exorbitant amount of cash to fix it!!
Link from Google re Specs Acer Aspire ONE A0751h-5Bk (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347366,00.asp)
VGA BIOS version 3306
Windows XP Home Edition
Thanks,
SPADGE_2356