Laptop will not power on at all. (by 2 users)

I did check the volts comming from the power adapter where it goes into the PC and I was only getting 2 volts. So I have ordered a new power adapter for it and I am waiting for it to get here. I also ordered another battery for it because this one is over 2 years old and I think it may be bad also since it will not boot from the battery either. If nothing else I will have two batteries if the one is not bad. I should be getting these two products either Friday of this week or Tuesday of next week.Then I can let you know if it solved the problem. Thank You and I will get back to you soon. Rosebudd

tom19511, I got a new power adapter and a new battery. I put them in the PC and I plugged it in and let the battery charge. When the light went green which means the battery is at a full charge, then I tried to turn on the PC. Still nothing. Nothing at all. I removed the battery and left it plugged in and tried to turn it on again but still nothing. I am totally lost on what it could be. If the hard drive was bad would the PC still start up? I know when my Desktop hard drive went bad, the PC still tried to start up. Shouldn't the mother board still try to start? This is acting totally dead. Let me know what ya think? Thank You in Advance for your time and help in this matter. Rosebudd

tom19511, The laptop I have is a Acer Aspire 5000. It also has only one 512MB of DDR instead of two. What would it cost to get another 512MB of DDR to add to it since I have it apart? Let me know and Thank You for your help. Rosebudd

I want to thank you all for helping me with my Acer Aspire 5000 LaptopPC. What I did was get a new power adapter and battery but it still didnot work. Then I totally took the laptop apart. I unplugged everthingand removed all the extra parts. Got mad when I saw I only hadone stick of 512mb since it was sapose to have 1GB. Got ripped offthere. Anyway I was frustrated because nothing looked bad yet itwouldn't work. So I decided I would put it all back together and takeit to someone to have it fixed. Well when I put it all back together Ithought I would try it one last time to see if it would come on. WOWthe stupid thing worked. Maybe one of the connections was lose, Ireally don't know but it has been working for two days now. One thing Idid find was, once I got it up and running, I checked my CPU usage andjust sitting there not doing anything it was at a 100%. So I crashedthe PC. Started over like new. Now it is working great. CPU usage whendoing nothing is at 0%. Not sure what got it to work but what ever itwas it worked. Again Thank You all. :)