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We have followed your advice and resolved the issue somewhere along the line. Thanks everyone for your assistance and advice and suggestions. ASC

We have had this LATITUDE E6410 for less than three weeks and everytime we go to use it (surfing and working in office applications, etc.) it freezes. Nothing works and the mouse will not move. How can we get it to function properly....

Okay, this dilemma is over - the HDD is fried. On to a new laptop - Thanks for the time you took to give us a hand on this QHN - ASC

Here is more to what is happening - We are getting this: 'System Error' 0201: Failure IDE #0 0203: Failure IDE #2 Do you want to run Setup? this is a loop it goes NOWHERE and selecting Setup only results in: 0201: Failure IDE #0 What...

This laptop turns on and the HDD does not seem to spin. There is as a message 'press' [F2] for Setup or [F12] for boot selection. It looks to be setting up (loading) - it never does. So we have pressed [F2]and we have the BIOS but there...

NBF, we have a M30 model that won't boot or even go to the F2 screen. how might we proceed? Thanks in advance for any suggestion or advice. ASC

Quote: Originally Posted by saugen48 If you have access to another computer, you can remove the laptop harddrive, purchase a laptop harddrive external case with usb cord. Put the HD in the case and plug it in a usb port...

Quote: Originally Posted by MichelleG saugen is right. it is a bad board, with a bad southbridge. The southbridge is failing. A shop that repairs boards could try to reflow the southbridge but it will still fail...

Quote: Originally Posted by shadowwalker702 I saw this same problem on another Acer laptop. The small battery that maintains the bios memory and such was removed and caused the computer to not be able to read the USB or...

Quote: Originally Posted by saugen48 Its apparently a south bridge problem. Check out this link to an older thread. Its 5 pages long but good reading. http://www.notebookforums.com/thread177674.html One guy was lucky...