Asus eeePC 1005HA does not boot past POST but does not fail POST
That is basically the situation, it isn't mine and as I understand, it was experiencing symptoms of overall HDD failure before it started doing this. The keyboard also seems to be unresponsive after a couple seconds of boot and the CPU is running constantly.
Here is a pic of where it freezes (no keyboard input works) and the last line that is cut off at 'S' says "Status OK". It has been given up on by its owner but I am curious about what this thing is doing.
Computer: Asus eeePC 1005HA
BIOS: AMI Rev. 0703
Edit: I forgot to say there is no beeps at any point so it isn't explicitly telling me it failed at any point.
Posted Aug 25, 2011, 11:47 PM UTC
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Is the original HDD still in it? (the one that was "failing")?
Is there a CD/DVD drive in there? Try to boot from the CD (with like Ubuntu or something) just to rule out a bad mb.
Do you just want a list of things to check?
It's simply not booting from the HDD, and with your prior comment about it presumably starting to fail, then I'd guess that it's just the HD
NO CD/DVD, HDD doesn't actually look bad, can't get into anything (no keyboard after the start up splash and F2 sends me to POST not setup for some reason)
It was never my assessment that the HDD was failing, that was the assessment of a University Help Desk for my friend. It looks like the entire MOBO might be KIA but I'll pull the HDD and see if it reads in something else.
oh crap, just realized that it's a laptop not a desktop, right?
Yeah it is, a netbook but it has already gone to pieces. It gets further with no HDD at all, but freezes in POST with a drive in it, so either it doesn't like that they are blank or the MOBO is shot to shit.
try a cd w/something on it first.