I've been presented with an Acer Aspire One to fix (model AOA 110-Ab /ZG5 with 1.5Gb ram and 8Gb SSD running XP sp3).
The problem manifested itself originally as error messages about corrupt files. This is a recent problem, the system had been running OK for a couple of years. These messages were intermittent but not resolved by running chkdsk /r. I immediately suspected the memory, but four rounds of memtest86+ couldn't find any error.
I have reinstalled the OS from the owner's originals disks without any error messages, but when I later installed some drivers not present on the CD, the zip files copies to the system proved faulty, but tested OK on the USB stick they had been transferred from.
So the question is can anyone suggest a methodology for identifying any hardware problem?
The problem manifested itself originally as error messages about corrupt files. This is a recent problem, the system had been running OK for a couple of years. These messages were intermittent but not resolved by running chkdsk /r. I immediately suspected the memory, but four rounds of memtest86+ couldn't find any error.
I have reinstalled the OS from the owner's originals disks without any error messages, but when I later installed some drivers not present on the CD, the zip files copies to the system proved faulty, but tested OK on the USB stick they had been transferred from.
So the question is can anyone suggest a methodology for identifying any hardware problem?