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Acer Laptop problems woim 06-14-2006
Posted by woim on June 14, 2006, 2:32 pm
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Ok

My friend seems to think that I am be all and end all of computer
knowledge, so she passed me her Acer Laptop and asked me make it work
faster. I deleted all the junk that was on there, and left it a couple
of days. I come back to it, and now it wont turn on... well, almost
never.

It's weird, you press the power, it gets as far as checking the cd
drive (about 2 seconds), and the shuts down.

So, the question is, what's wrong? Sounds like a power problem... but
I just don't know. and if it's power, how come it booted up once?
(and mean once out of about 10 attempts)

Any hints would be appreciated.


Posted by bobmct on June 14, 2006, 7:19 pm
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woim wrote:

> Ok
>
> My friend seems to think that I am be all and end all of computer
> knowledge, so she passed me her Acer Laptop and asked me make it work
> faster. I deleted all the junk that was on there, and left it a couple
> of days. I come back to it, and now it wont turn on... well, almost
> never.
>
> It's weird, you press the power, it gets as far as checking the cd
> drive (about 2 seconds), and the shuts down.
>
> So, the question is, what's wrong? Sounds like a power problem... but
> I just don't know. and if it's power, how come it booted up once?
> (and mean once out of about 10 attempts)
>
> Any hints would be appreciated.

A few shots in the dark:

1. is the laptop plugged into AC when doing this?
2. Try removing the battery and try bringing it up?
3. Try booting in "safe Mode" and see what happens.
4. Possible an overheating situation. Blow out the cooking slots with high
pressure air.

My guess #3 will work. If so you've got to find the offending driver and
disable/remove/replace it to continue.

Please post and let us know what and if you ever get it working.

Posted by earthnath on June 15, 2006, 11:22 am
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Plz make sure battrey geting charged r not (note the battrey LED)
Check with AC power and without AC power (note if any changes)
if u got the boot screen then try to change the booting settings as
default. then check what happens.

woim wrote:
> Ok
>
> My friend seems to think that I am be all and end all of computer
> knowledge, so she passed me her Acer Laptop and asked me make it work
> faster. I deleted all the junk that was on there, and left it a couple
> of days. I come back to it, and now it wont turn on... well, almost
> never.
>
> It's weird, you press the power, it gets as far as checking the cd
> drive (about 2 seconds), and the shuts down.
>
> So, the question is, what's wrong? Sounds like a power problem... but
> I just don't know. and if it's power, how come it booted up once?
> (and mean once out of about 10 attempts)
>
> Any hints would be appreciated.


Posted by woim on June 15, 2006, 7:33 pm
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give them a go and get back to you.

Safe mode won't work, it doesn't get that far. it turns itself off
before it reaches the BIOS most times.


Posted by woim on June 24, 2006, 9:39 pm
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Sorry, meant to say

It was overheating, and just needed to be cleaned out. I don't where
they'd been keeping the blasted thing, but it was more than a little
dusty.

works like a dream now.

Thanks for your help.

It's weird... if it had been a desktop... I would have worked that
out, but for a laptop, I just drew a blank


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