Father tried to install W7 on a netbook, no POST just black screen

MGSmaster101 · Jan 17, 2014

It's an Aspire One by Acer. He tried to install via USB and choose the "upgrade" option. He was directed to reboot to continue and when he did, there is a black screen with no POST. It takes no commands as far as I can tell and I have no idea what's wrong. Booting with the USB in or out does nothing. I'm not sure what to do at this point.

smorizio · Jan 17, 2014

look on the netbook web site to see how to do a hard reset with the cmos of the unit see if it hung.

photonboy · Jan 17, 2014

http://www.instructables.com/id/Acer-Aspire-One-A-Guide-to-Dismantling/step3/Hard-resetting-CMOS/

In particular:
"If you're having a BIOS problem, clearing the CMOS might help you with this. However, if it does not revive your netbook, then flash it with the latest BIOS which can be downloaded from ACER site. Now, I was not able to locate the CMOS battery of my netbook that is why I did the hard-reset method. As you can see from the motherboard, look closely you will notice there are four memory chips on the board nicely aligned next to each other. A few millimeters to the right are two triangles with a small C1 printed next to them. Connect both triangles using conductive material, effectively shorting them, and press the power button. The CMOS has been reset."

MGSmaster101 · Jan 17, 2014

photonboy :

http://www.instructables.com/id/Acer-Aspire-One-A-Guide-to-Dismantling/step3/Hard-resetting-CMOS/

In particular:
"If you're having a BIOS problem, clearing the CMOS might help you with this. However, if it does not revive your netbook, then flash it with the latest BIOS which can be downloaded from ACER site. Now, I was not able to locate the CMOS battery of my netbook that is why I did the hard-reset method. As you can see from the motherboard, look closely you will notice there are four memory chips on the board nicely aligned next to each other. A few millimeters to the right are two triangles with a small C1 printed next to them. Connect both triangles using conductive material, effectively shorting them, and press the power button. The CMOS has been reset."

I was able to flash the bios with the latest version, and that solved my issue.

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