ACER Travelmate 250
This laptop had
Kubuntu 14.04 on it and I decided to upgrade to 18.04. My normal
method is to use GParted to blank the HDD (60GB) then run the Kubuntu
installation DVD.
However, all has not
gone well. Two things happen and they might be related to each
other.
1) The optical drive
slows down and sometimes stops.
2) The screen goes
blank, and the Z sleep light comes on.
I then press the
power button and the optical drive
start up but very soon the two
events happen again.
At first I thought
this was a HDD problem so I took it out and put it in a USB caddy and
connected it to a Windows machine. The HDD was seen, a drive letter
was not allocated and it was not possible to see any data.
I brought a new HDD
installed it into the laptop. However, all of the above recurred.
I used an external
optical reader/writer and the above recurred.
I had a look in the
BIOS and made a change: MAIN > LCD Auto Dim – changed from
Enabled to Disabled. I later realised this setting was not relevant.
I am at a lose to
understand what to do.
Is this a failure of
the motherboard?
I do not think it is
a failure of the optical drive as the same happened when I used an
external optical drive.
Any help
appreciated.
