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    Travelmate 2420 not booting

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by nicbav, Oct 28, 2007.

  1. nicbav

    nicbav Newbie

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    The Travelmate 2420 that my brothers girl friend has, suddenly stopped working.

    The startup bios screen comes up and the blue bar on the bottom right moves twice so that the first bit comes on and it moves to the second bit and then the machine freezes.

    You can press F2 to get try and get into the BIOS setup and it changes to "Entering SETUP...." but then it just sits there doing nothing at all!

    I have left it for up to an hour and nothing happened.

    I have tried the same with the hard drive out, then the memory removed and then both.

    Nothing seemed to make any difference.

    Please can you very nice people help me and get this sorted out as all her work and family photos are on it.

    Nicbav
    :D
     
    nicbav, Oct 28, 2007
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  2. vipk

    vipk Newbie

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    Hi everybody! I'm new to the forums...

    My mother has a TravelMate 2410 and as of today it has the exact same problem that you described for your 2420. It won't boot although I can press escape and see the boot screen text or even press F2 which will then return "Entering setup", however, it does not make it into windows or the bios setup.

    It's a very weird problem and any help would be very appreciated!

    Thanks!

    EDIT:
    I'm also wondering if I take the computer apart can I access the hard drive in order to put it into a desktop computer? Just so I can save all her work?
     
    vipk, Oct 28, 2007
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  3. nicbav

    nicbav Newbie

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    removing the hardrive is dead easy and only requires the removal of the three outside screws and four silver and 4 black screws holding the hard drive in and it should just pull off its connecting pins

    nicbav
     
    nicbav, Oct 29, 2007
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  4. Mystik

    Mystik Notebook Deity

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    A friend's Travelmate has this EXACT problem, though the keyboard seems unresponsive (he might have mucked it up when trying to fix the error)...

    tried no RAM, no drives (HDD and/or CD), no WLAN card... just about everything I can disconnect from this machine I have, to try and get it booting.

    can someone with a simmilar model tell me what the third delay in booting is? since the 'esc' key won't show post?
     
    Mystik, Jul 16, 2008
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