It *seems* that progression has nothing to do with the *number* of reboot attempts, but rather with *how long* I've been trying to reboot. In other words, through successive attempts at booting, it will progress from symptom 3 to symptom 2 to symptom 1.never in the other direction. For symptom 2, the result of trying again will *never* be symptom 3. For symptom 3, the result of trying again could be anything. With symptom 2 or 3, I can do ctrl-alt-delete and try again.
Furthermore, it *seems* like the longer it sits in the off condition, the more likely it is to exhibit symptom 3 or 2. No boot - HD is seen (optical drive is not seen), but the HD name is corrupted (usually with a liberal amount of apostrophes) and the "Error 0200: Failure Fixed Disk"įirst observation is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the HD (I get these same symptoms with 2 different HD's which test perfectly).Īs best as I can remember, it *always* boots normally after a restart. No boot - neither HD or optical drive are seen by BIOSģ. Upon a cold start, my Aspire 5100 will do one of three things:Ģ.
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I still don't know how to fix it, but I know a lot of ways of how not to fix it! I find that others have experienced this, and am seeing a lot of bad advice being given out to them. This issue is driving me bonkers, but doing Google searches for: Okay, I know my way around a laptop, and have already taken this laptop down to the bare motherboard about three times now.
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