Notebook blocked after manjaro installation (SOLVED)

Legacy Netrunner 13.12
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I’ve installed Manjaro 0.8.9 Openbox from a live USB on my old Asus Z53F overwrriting the entire hard drive. Now The notebook is blocked. If I turn on the Notebook it blocks on the Asus first screen. If I try to change the boot loading options presing Esc ti blocks on the American Megatrends screen, if I try to enter BIOS it blocks saying entering SETUP. I tryed to run other live usb or live dvd but they don’t boot…
How can I recover my notebook?

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This is the wrong forum section, but never the less.
This sounds like a corrupt boot sector or boot loader issue. You might try resetting the bios to factory by hitting the control key 4 times after power on, then boot the live usb again, If that doesn’t work take out the hard drive and erase it in another machine, or with a USB drive enclosure from the live USB and your laptop.

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Thanks! I removed motherboard battery but the the problem was still there. I removed then the hard drive and so I was able to enter bios and boot a live OS from a a pen drive. If I insert again the hard drive same problem. So I connected the Hard drive to my other PC with an USB adaptor and I removed all its partitions, put it back on the laptop, booted an ubuntu live OS and re-installed it on the whole hard drive. Problem solved! I think I’ll never try manjaro anymore…

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I had this issue once myself, the problem isn’t with Manjaro directly, I had this with a Debian install once, the hard drive for some reason end up making a bad partition table, not really sure what causes this to happen other than in my case it was a bad sector that wasn’t marked bad until I re-partitioned and formatted the drive…

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Hi:
As AJSlye said this can happen with any distro’s install. I am running NetrunnerOS Rolling now on my Notebook with no problems. Before that I had Netrunner installed, and before that I tried Manjaro 0.8.8 without any problem. I would go back and check md5 sums and try again. Manjaro and NetrunnerOS Rolling are excellant distro’s. Hope this gives you some encourgement to try again.

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Now I’m running NetrunnerOS Rolling, very nice and complete distro…

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I’m so glad to here that you were able to get it working. Could you please add (Solved) the the topic title, this would be greatly appreciated.

Go well my friend,
AJ