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TalkingHeadsFan:
Hi all,

I just received a Megatouch Force eVo I bought online which was working before shipped. Now, I can't get it to boot. I tried reseating all connectors and chips, but with no progress.

Sometimes it will hang on the opening Force screen, other times it will progress to a PXE boot using 18h screen. This morning it went to a "booting Linux" screen before hanging.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this thing running? Heres a couple videos I sent to the seller...





Thanks in advance!

orizzle:
I would start by blaming the hard drive. Try connecting another hard drive and install the software. You can get the ISOs from Merits website

What is the Mario Kart thing in the background?

TalkingHeadsFan:
A Mario kart poster. I haven't hung it up yet; the basement is kind of a game room in progress.

obcd:
See if you can find a keyboard connector on it's pc board and plug a keyboard in.
If that works out, hit the del button to enter it's bios setup.
Check if the harddisk is still recognised in the bios and if it's set to boot from it.
If you see "booting linux" the disk is recognised. So indeed very likely that it's corrupted.
Having the iso's to restore the disk is one thing, but you will need a good disk as well.
You could check the brand and type of disk and run a diagnostic tool to check it.
Most manufactures have one that can be burned on a cd, and boots from it.

TalkingHeadsFan:
I've successfully made it into the bios setup menu, but as soon as I'm in it, it freezes and I can't select anything...

Maybe the hard drive was busted in shipping?

Also, it seems the software links on the Merit website are no longer functional, so even if I could figure out how to get the software onto a drive, I couldn't download it.

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