Completely Stumped :(

[Jonj1611]

Hi,

A friend bought over their netbook, an Acer Aspire One, it froze on loading windows, last file it loads is classpnp.sys.

Ok, I have seen that before so that wasn't an issue, thought I could repair it, now this is where the fun starts.

Took the hard drive out the netbook and plugged into PC, ironically it boots straight into windows 7. So I thought I would run Ubunutu Live on the netbook to see what would happen.

Ubunutu Live, gets to OS selection menu then freezes.
Windows XP, again, freezes at XP logo.
Windows 7 repair, can't even get it to load, from Disk or the hard drive.
Cannot load any OS whatsoever.
However, it will load stuff like Hirens boot CD and I can run the utils off of it.

The hard drive is fine, full surface scan, bad sector check etc etc
Memory test passed fine as well.

So I am completely lost now. I would say it was a motherboard failure but hirens boot cd works and the utils and it passed the system check.

Any help would be appreciated, please remember though this is a netbook and as such has only like 4 options in the bios!

Thanks
Jon

[Pancake]

Any SMART errors on the drive? also try some spare RAM if you can. It could still be the problem

[blueball]

Does it seem to be locking up when trying to get to a more advanced graphics setting, ie its fine in text mode but trying to load a desktop causes it to lock up? May be the GPU?

[Jonj1611]

Pancake, no smart errors, and tried different ram

Blueball yeah I did think that too, it seems to be when it tries to do anything apart from basic text, both in linux and windows!

[Pancake]

If it is anything else i dont think it will be worth it to replace the board

[Jonj1611]

If its the GPU which is the strongest contender at this point, then yeah, its not a repairable/replacement item really