Acer aspire with windows XP

[ehtisham11]

Acer aspire with windows XP hangs and needs to be restarted and everytime on restart or EVEN ON normal start up have to enter bios and then exit Bios for the netbook to start.
If I dont enter BIOS it shows up a message no boot device

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

Here are some troubleshooting steps that may help in solving the issue. It seems like a problem with the HDD itself.
- Start by loading in BIOS and see if it would still freeze because if it doesn't that means it's a problem with the HDD.
- Next to test is in Safe Mode, while in Safe Mode do observe if your PC will still freeze up or not.
- Also use the Hardware Diagnostics to test your HDD itself.
- Here's the complete guide to run Hardware Diagnostics: http/acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11589/~/testing-the-hard-disk
- You'll get an error message if your HDD is damaged or not.
- If your HDD test will pass your last option would be to reinstall Windows.

 

[ehtisham11]

thanks.. it still freeze after loading through BIOS, rather as i said I have always to start the PC through BIOS.
I will try the other steps and revert back

Hi,

Here are some troubleshooting steps that may help in solving the issue. It seems like a problem with the HDD itself.
- Start by loading in BIOS and see if it would still freeze because if it doesn't that means it's a problem with the HDD.
- Next to test is in Safe Mode, while in Safe Mode do observe if your PC will still freeze up or not.
- Also use the Hardware Diagnostics to test your HDD itself.
- Here's the complete guide to run Hardware Diagnostics: http/acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11589/~/testing-the-hard-disk
- You'll get an error message if your HDD is damaged or not.
- If your HDD test will pass your last option would be to reinstall Windows.