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Acer laptop doesn't power on.

nerawan

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Posted September 11, 2012 at 4:26PM

Hi guys. I have a small (10')Acer laptop that I bought in Bangkok 3 years ago. After 3 months I dropped it in the floor(cement) but it continued working for another month and then suddenly died. I power it on, I just see the green light but that is all. Not any messages in the screen (just black). Any ideas what it coud be. The hard drive or maybe the motherboard?.

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chub_tor

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Posted September 11, 2012 at 5:45PM

Have you checked that it is not just the screen by connecting an external monitor to the VGA socket? Are there any sounds coming from it?

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nerawan

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Posted September 11, 2012 at 10:56PM

yES. I CONNECT IT BUT NOTHING HAPPENS.

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Jock1e

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Posted September 12, 2012 at 9:07AM

Maybe the memory or hard drive has been dislodged by the fall.Have you checked to see that they are firmly secure..

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chub_tor

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Posted September 12, 2012 at 9:22AM

When you connected the external monitor did you push the appropriate keys to switch to the external display? Look at this webpage on another computer for all the keys. It seems to be Fn +F5 to toggle the display and Fn +F6 to turn the backlight off. These are for Aspire One netbooks, you don't say which model you have.

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nerawan

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Posted September 12, 2012 at 7:15PM

model AOA-150. Keys are fn and f5 but nothing happens. yesterday I opened it and hard drive and memory are firmly secure. Also I flush the Bios using a usb stick and pressing fn/esc and power key. It's supposed to blink after a few seconds but nothing. It looks it's the motherboard.

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woodchip

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Posted September 12, 2012 at 10:24PM

Try using it without the Battery, Just try on mains adapter

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morddwyd

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Posted September 13, 2012 at 8:08AM

I have two Acers.

Both have flaky power supply plugs.

Just a thought.

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