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    Completely Stumped :(

    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
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    Re: Completely Stumped :(

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

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    Re: Completely Stumped :(

    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?
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    Re: Completely Stumped :(

    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!
    Jon

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    Re: Completely Stumped :(

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

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    Re: Completely Stumped :(

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

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