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Hi,

I have a transnote that has been working really well for me for about a year now. I have used it as a learning and playing thing. It started with windows 98, then debian a number of times, and I was just playing around with freebsd.

When I switched it on after it working fine it just hung at the ibm boot splash screen. It hangs saying press F1 to enter bios and F12 to for boot list. Pressing either just hangs doing nothing. If I press escape a second or so after switching on I am able to see the extended boot messages, following that it shows the setup net boot prompt. I am able to enter this. When I leave the screen goes black and nothing happens.

I have googled and no one seems to have an solid answer other than a piece of hardware is broken. Is there anything I can do to test? Hidden keys that do special things? Any pointers welcome

Thanks

It sounds to me like the hard drive has gone bad.

I would go into the BIOS just to make sure that the Boot order hasn't been accidentally changed. Also try removing and reseating the hard drive. It does sound like a hard drive issue...so it might be dead...

Hi,

thanks for your replies. I was unsure that the hard drive would be bust since it was working one minuted then the next reboot nothing. But I took it out and when I turned it over there was the sound of something loose inside. So I guess it was one reboot too many

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Sometimes they whine and clunk before they die and sometimes they just stop instantly. Last week I was saving the data from a failing hard drive and it just stopped right in the middle of transferring files and it was DEAD.