Screen goes to half light when on battery power

It sounds like your hard drive has gone bad. As this is a laptop you can try to reseat the hard drive, if that does not help then it might be a case of hard drive crash.

Try to turn off your system. Then remove the cables and battery on the laptop. Then press and hold the power button for 8 secs. Then, reinsert the cables and battery on the laptop. Then, press the power button to turn on the laptop. If the HDD light flickers continuously, then the problem is on the Hard Drive. One way of resolving it is to Re-Seat the Hard Drive. If you know how to tear down the system, here's how. Turn off the laptop, remove the cables and battery at the back. Remove the screws located at the corners of it. Then remove and reinsert back the Hard Drive. If it still fails, contact ACER to immediately replace the Hard Drive. If you don't know how to tear down the laptop, then call ACER also for repair....

If it has the blue screen error, try to turn off the pc, remove the power cable and battery. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds. Reseat the cables and battery. turn on the laptop.

If Blue screen occurs, turn off the pc and reseat the Hard Drive. If it still occur, then that is the time to replace the hard Drive..

- battery and power adapter are for power supply. Files are saved in your Hard Drive. Files save in the hard drive will not be lost if power supplies are removed except for unsaved information of course.

for the flickering screen - the LCD may need replacement, contact the manufacturer.

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You can contact this companies regarding data recovery. The "Genius" was wrong about the drive being retuned to Apple, that will only occur if you have a system under warranty, and you would be returning it to Apple to avoid being charged.

As far as replacement hard drive going for $325, that too is pretty steep, see this link:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m37.l1313&satitle=MacBook+Pro+hard+drive&category0=

Hi,

Its very unfortunate but you've short circuit your power supply and before it get worse, please check it out with your vendor asap. It might cause severe problems.

I'll not suggest you to get your hands on to resolve this.

Hope this helps and you get your laptop up.

Thanks.

Your Computer enters Stand-By mode when untouched for more than one hour. This appears to be NOT A PROBLEM but the SETTINGS need be adjusted. Follow these SIMPLE steps to resolve it: -

(1) Goto Control Panel>Power Options>Power Schemes,
(2) Set the System standby to Never.
(3) Click Apply.
(4) Click OK.

Your Problem finished.

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possibly a bad processor.I built two that did the same thing,,,already replaced processor in one and it works fine now

Might be that the graphics card is overheating.

see website laptoprepair101.com, sev eral ways to test this problem