So I dropped my Eee PC recently and since then it's been having problems with booting up.
The netbook would either:
1. Not boot up at all with only the power and battery lights on.
2. Turn on but restart after either the
-BIOS screen
-Windows XP bootup screen
3. Sometimes a BSOD would also show up, but this is rare and I was unable to see the error before it restarted.
4. Boot up normally without any problems.
5. Boot up into BIOS recovery with a mesage of 'Bad BIOS Checksum'
This is some information about my system:
ASUS Eee PC 901
Intel Atom N270 @1.6GHz, 1 core and 2 threads.
(options to underclock to 1.2GHz or overclock to 1.7GHz)
Both drives are SSDs (listed as HDDs in BIOS, but they are definitely SSDs)
PS-Runcore 32G (32GB mSATA)
SM-ASUS-PHISON (I think 4GB)
1GB of RAM
I've tried 2GB of RAM, but 1GB of RAM seems to be better.
I've tried to:
Clear the CMOS
Rewrite the BIOS
Check the internals (the RAM and mSATA SSD area)
Yet nothing changes and it still has those problems.
I am aware it is obsolete, but I still want to get it in full working order again (fix all major issues).
I do not know of any boot problems that could arise that could cause a laptop to have a chance of booting or not booting after it is dropped.
