Acer aspire one. doesnt turn on. light for power and adapter comes on. can here fan trying to work with no results!!!
I have a problem with my Acer Aspire 3100: This is what shows on the screen;
Phoenix Trustedcore (tm) NB
Copyright 1985 - 2005 Phoenix Technologies Ltd
All Right Reserved
System BIOS Version: v2.83
VGA BIOS Version: ATI UMA V008.0501.017.000.18675
CPUO = MOBILE AMD Sempron (tm) Processor 3500+
640K System RAM Passed
446M Extended RAM Passed
512KB L2 Cache
System BIOS Shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
ATAI CD-ROM: Optiarc CD-RW CRX880A
Fixed Disk 0 : Hitachii HT S541680J9SA00
Mouse initialized
Error
0280: Previous boot incomplete - Default Configuration
Used
Can anyone help me please?
Damie
If it was just the hard drive, I would expect the video to come on and say something like "no boot device."
However, since you went through the steps here and see absolutely no video (even none on an external monitor), I would suspect a motherboard failure.
Be sure that when you hooked up an external monitor that you pushed the Fn key and the appropriate special function key (maybe F7) that switches between the laptop and external monitor. If you have done that (pushed the combination several times to switch displays), then you can be pretty certain your video card (if a separate card) may be bad.
I'm not really sure if this machine has a separate video card. The specs say it's a ATI Radeon Xpress 1100. This leads me to believe it may be a separate card.
If it's just the card that went bad, you can replace it. Otherwise, the motherboard will have to be replaced.
Good luck. You can do that, but if you're not confident, you best take the machine to a repair shop.
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Ive removed the battery, left 5 mins. put back in.
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ive removed power cord, removed battery. the power on light comes on. no other lights (apart from when the power cord is in). I can hear the fan trying to work. have tried linking to another monitor with no outcome.
Try removing the power cord.
Remove the battery
After several minutes, replace the battery and plug it back in.
Do the lights on the computer (power, hard drive) come on?
Can you hear the computer fan?
Also, can you hook up the computer to an external monitor in case that is the problem?
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