I've got my old bricked Asus EEE 900 at my house for the weekend. Both SSD's are ostensibly dead. I've loaded Ubuntu 10.04 Beta1 on a USB and can't install it without an Input/Output Error during the format. So much for the new kernel fixing the problem. Zeroing out and "unlocking" is the same. I've even taken the 16GB out and tried to have it read in a Windows machine. I've tried everything. You guys keep saying it's not really dead. I assure you that it behaves like it is every time I poke it with a digital stick. It came from trying to install the early Karmic release on both SSD's after the first one failed. It's not physically damaged, it came directly from my persistence trying to make this damn thing work installing and reinstalling. I've got the 900 for another day or two. I sold it to a friend with a Ubuntu running off an SD card. I'd like to get it working for him before I give it back to him tomorrow. My original post: http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8262777 On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, sun2ecliptic