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   Posted by: leo_kendall
   Member

   Acer aspire one d250
   1 gig of ram, 160GB Hard Drive
   intel gma 945 graphics.
   windows xp home.

   On start up as soon as you first press the power button, there is no display no life at all on the laptop's screen. No POST screen or Windows loading screen. Now after windows have loaded the display appears back on the laptop.
   If i hooked up an external monitor and do a cold start i can see everything working the way it should on the external monitor and then as the windows have finished loaded the image switches back to the laptop screen.
   It seems like the bios is using the vga out as the primary video until widows drivers have take over and switch back to the laptops screen. The same happens when the external monitor is hooked up and when it isn't.
   There is no option in the bios to change the default screen.
   I tried everything i could think of.
   FN+F5 key dose nothing until windows have loaded
   CTRL + ALT + F1 or F3 (alternative keys for changing the display)
   Did a full system recovery(format and reinstalled windows)
   Flashed and updated the Bios, From 1.25 to 1.27
   removed and reinstalled ram, battery, to draining complete power from the laptop.
   2 display drivers show up. I tried removing and disabling them one at a time.
   Still no change.

   No power, no lights, no display, no nothing on the laptops screen until windows have loaded. After windows have loaded everything works perfect, except when resuming from hibernation, the screen that says resuming from hibernation do not display because the bios is using the vga out as the mains.
   After a few seconds the screen lights up and continues to resume as it should.

   The netbook has not been dropped one or had any damage what so ever.

   Any ideas???
   If needs anymore information please feel free to ask.
   Loves the lil pc, just that this lil problem is a pain in the >>>.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Posted by: cyberion1985
   Member

   Hello leo_kendall,

   The AOA150 had another issue. I used a FAT formatted USB stick containing the 3310 BIOS - Battery and A/C on unit, press-hold power button until power LED keeps flashing. Then it reads the info from USB stick [BIOS]. As soon as the Power LED is flashing, remove pressure from Power button. Both the Power LED and the USB LED will flash simultaneously. Once its done it switches off entirely, or restarts.

   Why am I telling you this ? Maybe there is a similar way for this to work on the D250. To test, simply use above method without the USB and see if the power led flashes. When it does, the unit is available for the POST BIOS upgrade. An Acer Engineer should be able to tell you how to do this, as I am only capable of explaining the AOA150 process. The D250 will require different BIOS files and executables for that.

   On a general level, as I always love to do this; replace the mainboard and all is well.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Posted by: leo_kendall
   Member

   I'm pretty sure i did the flash correct.
   when i bought the netbook it had the bios 1.25 and now it has 1.27. so the bios have been changed.
   and it is cheaper to buy another netbook than to replace the motherboard.

   when it comes to compute, i consider myself to know a fair bit more than the average person. i have been building programing, and diagnostics them for over 10 years. I have never ran into this problem before, and it bugging the life outta me because i cannot find a solution for it.

   Is anyone needs any more info about it please feel free to ask, i can do up a diag report.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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