No power appears to reach the laptop

The adapter's Syscon detects a short circuit. It might be within the adapter itself; or with your system. Contact the authorized service centre in this case. If you have an other adapter, load it with. By this way, you can get an idea about the faulty unit. Electro help

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1. Take the battery out of the laptop & try to turn on the laptop using power adapter only. If the computer turns on, then the battery is defective & needs to be replaced.
2. Make sure the power adapter is not defective. Test the output voltage of the power adapter using a voltmeter. Compare the voltmeter reading to the nominal value written on the adapter or the laptop.
3. If you have another processor which is compatible with your laptop's model, try swapping processors & test to see if the laptop will work.
4. The power button could be bad.
5. The motherboard could be defective & needs to be replaced.

I would remove the battery from the laptop for a few minutes and see if that makes a difference. When you plug the laptops power adapter into the laptop, do you see any lights come on.

You can take your power adapter to Radio Shack and they will test it for free. The most common problem is the adapter going out and your laptop is completely drained and will not start at all. A worse problem is the input jack on the laptop that the adapter plugs into is loose/bad. If that is the issue, you are looking at a big repair.

A fast check to determine whether you have a problem with the power adapter, power cord or the laptop's battery is to turn off the laptop, remove the battery, connect the power adapter, turn on the laptop & see if it works.
If the laptop works directly from the power adapter with the battery removed, then the power adapter is good. In this case we can suspect that the battery is defective.

1) You need to check the power supply itself to mkae sure it still puts out the DC voltage as indicate on the power supply.

2) You may have cracked solder joints at the DC input jack of the laptop.

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The modern adaptors are 'switched mode' that allows them to accept a wide range of input voltages (typically 100-240 VAC). Unfortunately, they have some components in them that are critical to their operation and on these, many mfrs. like to cheat on quality. This causes the early demise of the supply.
I saw Acer supplies offered at <$20 US searching on Google so I suggest you replace the supply. Note; this may not fix your problem anyhow as most laptops have a bit of circuitry inside to control the input from the pack and choose whether to use the battery or not. If that fails, the unit may not receive input from either.

I would start with the AC jack. Plug the power cord into the jack and see how much it wiggles. If it does wiggle, try to see if the jack is wiggling inside the computer. HP had a huge problem with the ZD7000 models, the AC jack would break free from the soldering on the motherboard. Solution at that time was new motherboard! Since then you can now find folks to fix the motherboards.

But this also could be the power adapter. Is there a light on the adapter? You could check for power with a multimeter.

Your battery not able to hold a charge is a bad battery.
Love your precise description & diagnoses. Wish others would describe their troubles as well as you!

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