Hi Guy's,
Got a strange fault with an Acer Aspire 3000, and its bugging me after it came to life the other day. It was a good laptop and I'd like to get it working again.
Just over a year ago all was working well on it. Then one morning I turned it on, but it wouldn't power up (no cpu fan or HDD spinning just dead) apart from the charging light on the front. This just went solid green, normally it goes amber when charging.
So i thought I'd investigate, I started by removing the RAM cleaning and reseating, same with the HDD, even cleaned and applied more heat sink paste and all the heatsinks and reseated them. Looked for shorts but nothing obvious. Stripped it fully down made sure nothing was overheating.
Tried it with the battery out and just on mains. Cleared the BIOS by removing the battery for 5 mins. All to no avail. So it was just all put back together and put in a cupboard for a year and forgot about.
Now last night I thought I'd see if it had any components I could use. But out of curiosity I thought I'd see it it would power up. Plugged in the charger and it started charging, strange i thought didn't do this last time. Powered it on and it booted up to my surprise.
So I shut it down and thought I'd move it to a room that I was in. Went to power it on again and I was back at the original fault solid green light and nothing spinning or starting up .
So I did what I did last time and nothing still.
So I've come to the conclusion that the fault is something that is holding a charge, as over a year everything will have fully discharged.
Where do I start in finding it? I think it could be the battery but I refuse to buy a new one until I can confirm this.
Or can anyone else shed a light on it?
Any help appreciated
thankyou in advance
Got a strange fault with an Acer Aspire 3000, and its bugging me after it came to life the other day. It was a good laptop and I'd like to get it working again.
Just over a year ago all was working well on it. Then one morning I turned it on, but it wouldn't power up (no cpu fan or HDD spinning just dead) apart from the charging light on the front. This just went solid green, normally it goes amber when charging.
So i thought I'd investigate, I started by removing the RAM cleaning and reseating, same with the HDD, even cleaned and applied more heat sink paste and all the heatsinks and reseated them. Looked for shorts but nothing obvious. Stripped it fully down made sure nothing was overheating.
Tried it with the battery out and just on mains. Cleared the BIOS by removing the battery for 5 mins. All to no avail. So it was just all put back together and put in a cupboard for a year and forgot about.
Now last night I thought I'd see if it had any components I could use. But out of curiosity I thought I'd see it it would power up. Plugged in the charger and it started charging, strange i thought didn't do this last time. Powered it on and it booted up to my surprise.
So I shut it down and thought I'd move it to a room that I was in. Went to power it on again and I was back at the original fault solid green light and nothing spinning or starting up .
So I did what I did last time and nothing still.
So I've come to the conclusion that the fault is something that is holding a charge, as over a year everything will have fully discharged.
Where do I start in finding it? I think it could be the battery but I refuse to buy a new one until I can confirm this.
Or can anyone else shed a light on it?
Any help appreciated
thankyou in advance