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PXE-M0F. . .No bootable devise, please help
Acer aspire one,
Checked hard drive, not loose,
Changed Bios setting sata controller from AChI to IDE, as someone suggested, nothing works
PLease help
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Your
hard drive is missing from the system. Or, just does not recognize it.
The
obvious - Remove any USB devices like drives and any media from disc player.
Its trying to load, but can't find bootable hard drive, CD, or USB...
Remove
the hard drive and re-seat (reconnect). Check BIOS by pressing an F key
during boot. Look on the screen for correct Function key. Might be F2 key.
Verify BIOS recognizes the drive. It must be listed! There is no going
forward if it's not. Check boot order and make internal hard drive first.
Save and restart.
How old is this machine? Have you ever opened the chassis and blown out the dust with compressed air?
Built-up dust can cause electronic components to fail due to the loss of ability to dissipate heat properly.
Your machine is trying to boot off a network and not the hard drive. You need to set it in BIOS to boot from the hard drive. If it cannot find a bootable device, then your hard drive or your operating system is defective or disconnected.
The netbook is trying to find a bootable device. It cannot read the hard drive, so it started looking for a network hard drive to boot from, since it did not find that it continued down the line until it asked if you wanted to go to recovery. Most likely you have lost your hard drive and the netbook is simply trying to find the next boot device.
The computer can't see the hard drive for one of many reasons.
1. Hard drive failure
2. Bad connection between hard drive and motherboard.
3. BIOS corrupted
4. Motherboard failure of HDD control.
Press F2 when the ACER splash screen appears and go into BIOS set up.
The first page should show the hard drive name and ID number.
This may be missing or have corrupted characters in it.
Go along to the 'save and exit' and allow a restart. This sometimes kicks it into life.
Replace the hard drive with a known good one and check to see if this is recognised in the BIOS.
Clean the contacts of the hard drive.
ACER fitted both types of hard drive to this model, either PATA (IDE) or SATA.
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