I have an Aspire V5-122P with Windows 8 that was stuck in an 'automatic repair' loop. I managed to get into safemode and set chkdsk to run on reboot. Upon reboot it said 'scanning and repairing', got as far as 27 percent and then stopped there for three to four hours. At this point I figured it wasn't doing anything so powered down the netbook. When I turned it back on there's nothing on the screen, it's just black. The power lights are on, the fan is running, I can hear the HDD but nothing appears on the screen. I've tried pressing FN and f5 /f6, etc but it does nothing.
I've even opened it up, removed the battery, removed the CMOS battery, reset CMOS in the hope it'd reset but it doesn't solve the problem.
any ideas?