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Bought an Acer Aspire One netbook. Worked fine for half an hour. Connected to wireless, downloaded, etc. Then I shut down. When I started up again with the AC power plugged in and an SD card in the slot (although I don't think it's the problem, the SD card was not formatted for FAT). Now it starts up for 38 seconds and then dies. It shows the Windows XP screen and then goes to "checking disk" it gets to "22% complete" and then shuts down cold. I've tried restarting many times, always 38 seconds. If I do F2 and go to bios, I can change the startup disk, but even while still in Bios it still shuts down after 38 seconds. (I took the SD card out: same result. Formatted the SD card for FAT: same result; finally took the card out again: same result.) Doing ALT + F10 has no effect. Changing the startup to internet recovery has no effect. If I pull out the battery and leave it out for a while, sometimes the check disk will complete and go to the desktop. I can do something like open Control Panel and then it shuts down cold. I have the Windows XP disk and system disk that came with the netbook but I don't have an external CD/DVD USB player. What else can I try?