My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

[zerothebrave]

I have Acer Aspire 9920G and that worked fine till 3 days ago. I stoped normaly and after that, when I press POWER button it show me just ACER logo and next o white line blinking in left top corner.

I tried to boot from usb bootable but still nothing (when I select to boot from USB next appear "press any key to boot from USB" but next second white line apear and nothing happened.
I tried to make a freedos bootable usb.... and he said.... Loading FreeDOS and still white line blinking.

I tried a lot of things but everytime.... still nothing.

Sorry for my english!
I`m waiting for an answer!

[piernov]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

This has an NVidia 8600M GPU right? No artifacts on the screen? I would be surprised if the GPU is not dead…

[caspian]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Does it get into Bios setup? is the hard disk easily recognized in Bios?

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

No artefacts on screen. Hard disk is easily recognized in bios.

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

I tried another hdd... Another usb stick... Same problem.

[jasko_jacker]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Try to enable post on BIOS, at restar read all' post and search if there is some errors like PCI etc

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Try to enable post on BIOS, at restar read all' post and search if there is some errors like PCI etc

I don't know what you mean.

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!


It's a simple Pheonix bios.

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

No Acer expert here?

[mikey5791]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Hi,

Since it works fine few days ago, i assume you did not
change any hard disk boot setting then. Make sure
your first boot is still your hard disk.

Second thing to check see if in bios menu use
diagnostic test to check your hard disk for any
error. Is your hard disk a sata type? Also recheck
in your bios hard disk setting, enable sata hard
disk.

That is all i can share for the moment.
Hope it works.

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Hi,

Since it works fine few days ago, i assume you did not
change any hard disk boot setting then. Make sure
your first boot is still your hard disk.

Second thing to check see if in bios menu use
diagnostic test to check your hard disk for any
error. Is your hard disk a sata type? Also recheck
in your bios hard disk setting, enable sata hard
disk.

That is all i can share for the moment.
Hope it works.

Hard disk is empty now because I pulled out and formated and tested with my desktop. Even without hard disk, when I am trying to boot from freedos stick not working.

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Now, a bigger problem, do not want to start anymore . All lights and cpu fan is starting but nothing on the screen.
Nobody cand help me to flash bios from that Fn+Esc?

[Alfa is auto]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

99%your gpu is dead,reflow it.

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

99%your gpu is dead,reflow it.

How can I see if gpu is dead?

[bachir2004]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

have you tried a bios recovery using crisis disk.here is a crisis disk with your bios.better use a 2gb stick or less.after creating your crisis disk,remove battery,insert usb stick,press at the same time fn+esc pluging charger,power on the notebook,you should see usb activity if it has a led,release fn and esc,laptop should reboot if everything is correct remove usb.good luck..second file is a video how to create crisis disk.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Symptom looks like the ATA controller took a shit...

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Symptom looks like the ATA controller took a shit...

I think you are close of the truth!

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

have you tried a bios recovery using crisis disk.here is a crisis disk with your bios.better use a 2gb stick or less.after creating your crisis disk,remove battery,insert usb stick,press at the same time fn+esc pluging charger,power on the notebook,you should see usb activity if it has a led,release fn and esc,laptop should reboot if everything is correct remove usb.good luck..second file is a video how to create crisis disk.

Thank you for your effort. I tryed what you writed to me but no activity on my stick. I have a 4Gb stick formated in FAT with a red led. WTF is wrong with my laptop. Nothing is how must to be.


ONCE AGAIN.... SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH!

[zerothebrave]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

Today I pulled out vga card and turned on my laptop without gpu. For half of a second I saw white display and after that the display is dark grey.
I think this laptop has a short electric somewhere because it feels bad when I touch it. can the problem be from that?

[Chieftain]

Re: My old Acer Aspire 9920g don`t want to boot from nothing. Please help me!

It is normal to show white screen without the VGA pluged in. All acers do the same without vga pluged in. If you can see Acer logo on startup but stucks there , remove all devices and usb cables, change the ddr mem with a "known good working one" and start the machine. Also you must see if it gets easily in BIOS. If it doesn't , reflash the BIOS with an external flasher.. Don't reflow or reball VGA if you dont have artifacts.