Weird Problem with an ACER Travelmate 8000

[C°KéM@ñ]

Hi,

My brother gave me a defected Travelmate 8000 notebook. When I try to boot the notebook, I can only see the BIOS boot screen but then the screen turns completely black.

I tought it had something to do with the hard drive but I already tried to boot from USB stick and cd-rom but the screen always turns blank. I have the impression that the computer doesn't search for the MBR on every medium I used.

The output before it turns black is:

Phoenix FirstBIOS(tm) Notebook Pro Version 2.0
Copyright 1985-2002 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
All Rights Reserved

BIOS version 3A12
System ID=01234567
Build Time: 04/02/04 10:09:08

CPU = Intel (R) Pentium(R) M Processor 1500MHZ
511 System RAM Passed
1024K Cache SRAM Passed
System BIOS Shadowed
Video BIOS Shadowed
ATAPI CD-Rom: QSI...
USB: GENERIC FLASH DISK
Mouse Initialized

Can someone give me an advice on what I have to do to fix this problem, or can anyone at least give me an explanation of what causes this problem.

Thank you

 

[liquefy]

possibly a motherboard issue.
i know that with my desktop, the times when it gets stuck on the bios, it always ends up being that i need a new motherboard.

 

[mohibr]

Hi,

My brother gave me a defected Travelmate 8000 notebook. When I try to boot the notebook, I can only see the BIOS boot screen but then the screen turns completely black.

I tought it had something to do with the hard drive but I already tried to boot from USB stick and cd-rom but the screen always turns blank. I have the impression that the computer doesn't search for the MBR on every medium I used.

The output before it turns black is:

Phoenix FirstBIOS(tm) Notebook Pro Version 2.0
Copyright 1985-2002 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
All Rights Reserved

BIOS version 3A12
System ID=01234567
Build Time: 04/02/04 10:09:08

CPU = Intel (R) Pentium(R) M Processor 1500MHZ
511 System RAM Passed
1024K Cache SRAM Passed
System BIOS Shadowed
Video BIOS Shadowed
ATAPI CD-Rom: QSI...
USB: GENERIC FLASH DISK
Mouse Initialized

Can someone give me an advice on what I have to do to fix this problem, or can anyone at least give me an explanation of what causes this problem.

Thank you

Hiya Mate,

Did you manage to sort your problem out? Iv got a TM8006 with the same problem, please let me know, many thanks.

Best regards.