Acer laptop died?

silverharp

I have an Acer laptop Aspire 5920 that has just died for no apparent reason. I think there is power getting into the machine as the battery connector is a little warm. I have tried holding down the On button for a minute or 2, nothing. One guess is that the switch when you close the "lid" is dirty, have tired blowing out any dust but it didnt do anything. None of the laptop lights are on. I had a quick look inside but nothing obvious was loose.

Any ideas?

Verres

Have you tried another power cable / transformer? It might just be an issue with the cable. If that doesn't work it sounds like there's an issue with power supply to the board. Which means either PC repair shop, or roll up your sleeves.

Remember - if you've got anything personal on your laptop that you don't want made public or sold (think bank details, financials, personal photos etc.) think twice and thrice before you bring your laptop into a PC repair shop.

ApplefyMe

Verres wrote: »

Have you tried another power cable / transformer? It might just be an issue with the cable. If that doesn't work it sounds like there's an issue with power supply to the board. Which means either PC repair shop, or roll up your sleeves.

Remember - if you've got anything personal on your laptop that you don't want made public or sold (think bank details, financials, personal photos etc.) think twice and thrice before you bring your laptop into a PC repair shop.

Bit unfair on the pc repair shops there Verres.We deal with sensitive info every day e.g bank details etc and have never had any issues.Besides unless he is familiar with hard drives he has no other option!!

Verres

Apolgies ApplefyMe; I didn't mean to tar all establishments with the same brush. The problem is that for the great unwashed who can't / won't do their own PC repairs they usually just pick the nearest / handyist place and trust them with their PC...

There are definitely good PC repairs establishements out there but unless you know the good from the bad you're likely to get shafted...

limericklassy

my bro had one...after a year the battery power supply died. He bought two more,and the same thing happened..eventually he gave up..think its the motherboard burning them out..

cable842

Verres I would not trust anyone with my computer but myself you have a very good point about your public details.

I was in my dump in my apartment and I walked in and the polish garbage truck worker was ripping out a hard drive out of someones computer that they had dumped.

So I left a Note upstairs warning people about dumping there computers and making sure too take out your hard drives.

Verres wrote: »

Have you tried another power cable / transformer? It might just be an issue with the cable. If that doesn't work it sounds like there's an issue with power supply to the board. Which means either PC repair shop, or roll up your sleeves.

Remember - if you've got anything personal on your laptop that you don't want made public or sold (think bank details, financials, personal photos etc.) think twice and thrice before you bring your laptop into a PC repair shop.

zenno

this is not probably related but my sisters acer laptop would not power on. there was no lights or power in the laptop from looking at it. all i done was connect the power connector into it and pulled it left once and right once with a bit of force and it works fine still. sounds stupid but it worked for me.

ApplefyMe

cable842 wrote: »

Verres I would not trust anyone with my computer but myself you have a very good point about your public details.

I was in my dump in my apartment and I walked in and the polish garbage truck worker was ripping out a hard drive out of someones computer that they had dumped.

So I left a Note upstairs warning people about dumping there computers and making sure too take out your hard drives.

Could I just point out to you that there is a difference between a garbage truck worker ripping out a harddrive and a computer repair person being given a computer to fix.Don't flatter yourself,

ApplefyMe

Verres wrote: »

Apolgies ApplefyMe; I didn't mean to tar all establishments with the same brush. The problem is that for the great unwashed who can't / won't do their own PC repairs they usually just pick the nearest / handyist place and trust them with their PC...

There are definitely good PC repairs establishements out there but unless you know the good from the bad you're likely to get shafted...

Yup I'll accept that...best way to avoid that is to look for what qualifications/credentials the repair shop has.99% of the fast ones are partially down to the customer, throwing their machine into a place that says pc repairs without checking the certification of the company and its technicians

cable842

Really is there I'd love too the big difference.

priceless....

ApplefyMe wrote: »

Could I just point out to you that there is a difference between a garbage truck worker ripping out a harddrive and a computer repair person being given a computer to fix.Don't flatter yourself,

bette

ApplefyMe wrote: »

Could I just point out to you that there is a difference between a garbage truck worker ripping out a harddrive and a computer repair person being given a computer to fix.Don't flatter yourself,

The garbage truck worker might know enough about computers to be able to get info from a fubarred laptop! I don't work as a computer repair person in a laptop shop yet I have repaired many a machine.

Some stuff on PCs is sensitive and I would never leave a machine in to a stranger to fix. The recurring tale I hear from peeps who got their machines repaired is the loss of their data. You know as well as I do that the easiest way to *repair* a machine is to format/re install. Backups and restores as well as reinstalling programs takes time. eh?

bette

ApplefyMe wrote: »

Yup I'll accept that...best way to avoid that is to look for what qualifications/credentials the repair shop has.99% of the fast ones are partially down to the customer, throwing their machine into a place that says pc repairs without checking the certification of the company and its technicians

Do you know where the uninitiated might get a list of accredited companies and technicians? Just in case I might need to get my lappie fixed.

jamestierney

I got mine fixed by a company called PC Experts - blue screen.
I was also afraid that they would wipe it but I was assured that they didn’t do that. The guy picked it up and had it back fixed in one day.

www.pcexperts.ie