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asus eeepc 1000ha fatal system error

fclee1968

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Apr 10, 2013
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my wife's asus 1000ha has a fatal error when she started it up. it states it will shut the system down with the fata l error msg after xp screen appears. has anyone run across this time of problem
 
Hi :)

Run a hard drive test in DOS... HIRENS BOOT CD etc, it sounds like a failing hard drive... do NOT do this if you have an SSD...

All the best Brett :)