@AC AA! Dead
Your AA1, in all probability, is not dead; the firmware has gone bad and needs reflashing. This happened to me yesterday and I had an interesting time trying to figure out what was going on and thinking of what story I could tell the shop I got it from when I brought it back dead as a doornail, but furtling a little more revealed that it is in fact quite a common problem and can be sorted out.
There is a procedure to recover the BIOS in this link:
<http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html>
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