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failed laptop boot

damnthispc
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Posted January 15, 2012 at 6:15PM

My Acer aspire 6530G will only go as far as lighting the LEDs at the top of the keyboard, I can hear the optical dive initialize and the fan spin briefly then it all shuts down. 10 or so seconds later it repeats this process. I have tried the following 1. removing each RAM in turn and tryinh them in the other slots in pairs and singlarly 2. removeed the battery and tried AC only 3. tried the hold power button without AC or battery as mentioned on one of the supprt pages 4. removed and re seated the HDD. 5. tried anti virus rescue just in case its a boot sector virus 6. tried a win 7 recovery in options 5 & 6 the disks couldn't be read In all cases there has been no change in the outcome. Any suggestions please

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted January 15, 2012 at 7:33PM

If shutting down within a few seconds it may be overheating.

try clearing all the fluff form the grills -do you hear the fan start up?

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buteman

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Posted January 15, 2012 at 7:34PM

Have you tried starting in safe mode.

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damnthispc

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Posted January 15, 2012 at 7:39PM

Fruit bat.. yes de fluffed buteman.. can't get to bios even so no safe mode

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted January 15, 2012 at 9:03PM

remove all power supplies and remove cmos battery for 10 mins

refit and retry

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damnthispc

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Posted January 17, 2012 at 11:53PM

solved it, tried hd in another pc, no boot, tried another laptop hd in the aspire... bingo away it went

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