Ferrari will not boot...VERY weird stuff ... Here's the deal...Yesterday my Ferrari 4005 was working just fine and after checking my email and doing some quick ...

rotobadger · 08-12-2006, 07:24 PM

Here's the deal...Yesterday my Ferrari 4005 was working just fine and after checking my email and doing some quick Ebay I sat on the couch. I turned around after about 5 minutes to see my screen had gone black and the blue tooth light was on (I never use it). Well, I tried a hard reboot. I got the Ferrari splash screen (racecar) and then nothing. Just black screen. To make a long story short, I tried booting from the recovery disk. Nothing. I tried booting to safe mode. Nothing. My Acer will just not come up. Called Acer support and they told me they thought my hard drive had gone bad. I went to Best Buy and got an external enclosure for a USB hookup to another computer and...no problems whatsoever. The hard drive is just fine. All data is there. No one seems to know what the problem is. I have tried all the little tricks (removing battery etc.). This is a huge problem as I have to get this Ferrari back up and running by late next week for a huge job I'm on. Does anyone know what could be wrong here? It just seems as if the Ferrari isn't even seeing the hard drive...or is it? HELP!!!!!

baines · 08-12-2006, 08:25 PM

Sounds like your HD bit the big one...,so...

Pull the harddrive out,and put it in the freezer--give it about an hour in there,then try it again--if it works,you're gonna need to copy your s#$t to a DVD or something,because it may not work again.
If it does boot,it may not do it again--so have something ready to copy to,or you're probably s.o.l. for a second try.

baines

rotobadger · 08-12-2006, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baines

Sounds like your HD bit the big one...,so...

Pull the harddrive out,and put it in the freezer--give it about an hour in there,then try it again--if it works,you're gonna need to copy your s#$t to a DVD or something,because it may not work again.
If it does boot,it may not do it again--so have something ready to copy to,or you're probably s.o.l. for a second try.

baines

Thanks for the response but I do not think you read through my post. I pulled the drive and put it in an external enclosure for USB connection to another computer and it worked fine. All data was there. Copied over to another drive just fine. I worked perfectly. It is NOT the drive. Is it possible my registry has become corrupted?

dave38 · 08-12-2006, 10:48 PM

Could be a RAM stick error, at least you could try removing one, try booting, and then replace with the other, and try booting again. if this doesn't work, you can try booting the Ferrari...Fingers crossed for you its a RAM error, cheapest to fix anyway.

dave38 · 08-12-2006, 11:05 PM

Grabbed this from elsewhere - maybe another solution. Its one more thing you could do, but you need a full XP version CD, not the recovery disk.You need to boot to the XP cd and when you see the Welcome to setup press the letter R

You will get a dos prompt
Then type "chkdsk /p" without the quotes and hit enter
When that is done type "fixboot" and hit enter
"Y" and enter at the prompt
Then type "exit" and hit enter
The system will now reboot into Windows

If for some reason that don't work for you, you can boot to the recovery console like above and...
Type "chkdsk /r" then enter
When done type "exit" and hit enter.
This will take longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.

I know you mentioned you tried booting from the recovery CD but that disk won't work for this situation.

Chakz · 08-13-2006, 03:25 AM

There's also a period of time before a hard drive fails... Wierd things can start happening before it officially says good night. I know the hard drive works fine in an external enclosure but it's not the same, in the ferrari it has to access the MBR before it will load Windows, if their is a physical corruption at the start of the HD where the MBR is then it will only show problems while trying to boot, an external (as you said) works fine. Try putting the hard drive into another laptop and booting, if you don't have access to a second laptop go to your local electronics store and purchase a laptop->desktop IDE cable and try booting it in a desktop machine. If it boots in another machine then you know 100% that it's not the hard drive that's the problem. Worst case scenario is that the piece on the motherboard that connects to the laptop is damaged. Then you will be forced to send it into Acer for repair. I hope some of this helps, Best of Luck.

08-12-2006, 07:24 PM	#1
rotobadger rotobadger Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3 Credits: -348	Ferrari will not boot...VERY weird stuff Here's the deal...Yesterday my Ferrari 4005 was working just fine and after checking my email and doing some quick Ebay I sat on the couch. I turned around after about 5 minutes to see my screen had gone black and the blue tooth light was on (I never use it). Well, I tried a hard reboot. I got the Ferrari splash screen (racecar) and then nothing. Just black screen. To make a long story short, I tried booting from the recovery disk. Nothing. I tried booting to safe mode. Nothing. My Acer will just not come up. Called Acer support and they told me they thought my hard drive had gone bad. I went to Best Buy and got an external enclosure for a USB hookup to another computer and...no problems whatsoever. The hard drive is just fine. All data is there. No one seems to know what the problem is. I have tried all the little tricks (removing battery etc.). This is a huge problem as I have to get this Ferrari back up and running by late next week for a huge job I'm on. Does anyone know what could be wrong here? It just seems as if the Ferrari isn't even seeing the hard drive...or is it? HELP!!!!!

08-12-2006, 10:48 PM	#4
dave38 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: England Posts: 94 Credits: 425	Could be a RAM stick error, at least you could try removing one, try booting, and then replace with the other, and try booting again. if this doesn't work, you can try booting the Ferrari...Fingers crossed for you its a RAM error, cheapest to fix anyway. __________________ Acer Aspire 5652 100GB HDD, 3GB DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce Go 7600 GPU, 256MB Intel Core Duo T2600 2.16Ghz XP SP2 Acer Aspire 7520G 320GB HDD (160X2), 3GB DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce 8400M G 256MB AMD Turion 64X2 T60 Vista 32 bit SP1

08-12-2006, 11:05 PM	#5
dave38 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: England Posts: 94 Credits: 425	Grabbed this from elsewhere - maybe another solution. Its one more thing you could do, but you need a full XP version CD, not the recovery disk.You need to boot to the XP cd and when you see the Welcome to setup press the letter R You will get a dos prompt Then type "chkdsk /p" without the quotes and hit enter When that is done type "fixboot" and hit enter "Y" and enter at the prompt Then type "exit" and hit enter The system will now reboot into Windows If for some reason that don't work for you, you can boot to the recovery console like above and... Type "chkdsk /r" then enter When done type "exit" and hit enter. This will take longer, but the system should boot back into Windows. I know you mentioned you tried booting from the recovery CD but that disk won't work for this situation. __________________ Acer Aspire 5652 100GB HDD, 3GB DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce Go 7600 GPU, 256MB Intel Core Duo T2600 2.16Ghz XP SP2 Acer Aspire 7520G 320GB HDD (160X2), 3GB DDR2 RAM nVidia GeForce 8400M G 256MB AMD Turion 64X2 T60 Vista 32 bit SP1

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08-12-2006, 08:25 PM	#2
baines Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 69 Credits: -332	Sounds like your HD bit the big one...,so... Pull the harddrive out,and put it in the freezer--give it about an hour in there,then try it again--if it works,you're gonna need to copy your s#$t to a DVD or something,because it may not work again. If it does boot,it may not do it again--so have something ready to copy to,or you're probably s.o.l. for a second try. baines

08-13-2006, 03:25 AM	#6
Chakz Ferrari 4005 Owner Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 306 Credits: -237	There's also a period of time before a hard drive fails... Wierd things can start happening before it officially says good night. I know the hard drive works fine in an external enclosure but it's not the same, in the ferrari it has to access the MBR before it will load Windows, if their is a physical corruption at the start of the HD where the MBR is then it will only show problems while trying to boot, an external (as you said) works fine. Try putting the hard drive into another laptop and booting, if you don't have access to a second laptop go to your local electronics store and purchase a laptop->desktop IDE cable and try booting it in a desktop machine. If it boots in another machine then you know 100% that it's not the hard drive that's the problem. Worst case scenario is that the piece on the motherboard that connects to the laptop is damaged. Then you will be forced to send it into Acer for repair. I hope some of this helps, Best of Luck.