teurns on but wont work

[thoms]

have an aspire one d270-1865 it comes on but shows a a white line in the bottom of screen with a little flashing light above the line saying setup isstarting services will not let me do anything else can you please help thank you thomas

 

[elfmaslana]

What were you doing prior to this incident?

 

[photonboy]

It might be a defective HARD DRIVE or a few other things.

Two things to test:
1) confirm you can boot into BIOS
2) boot to MEMTEST disc if possible and test your memory ( www.memtest.org )
3) create an Ubuntu boot disc and run from DVD (don't install) to see if that works to test your hardware.

If it's your HARD DRIVE, you need to determine if the drive is completely dead, or whether it's just corrupted SOFTWARE on the drive.

There is RECOVERY SOFTWARE that can attempt to rebuild your boot files but I don't want to get too far ahead of the problem so I'll just leave it there.