Laptop died!!! (by 2 users)

Comment by christaj1280, posted on Jul 06, 2008

My Acer Aspire 5002 WLMi is not getting any power. The week before it went completely dead, it seemed like there was a short in the power cord. While everything was plugged in, it would switch to the battery power. I would wiggle the cord and get it to change back to
AC power. Then one day I left it on and plugged it in, and went out for the afternoon, when I came back it was off and would not turn back on. I tried to get any of the power lights to light up, but nothing. I replaced the power cord, and when i plug it in, the light on the brick goes off. The light on the brick on the cord is illuminated when it is plugged into the wall but when I plug it into my computer the light on the brick goes off.

I thought that the battery had died and if I put a new battery in it might work. My sister has the identical computer, so when I was finally able to use her computer I put her battery in my laptop and my battery in hers. Neither her battery or her plug helped. Nothing lights up and it does not turn on. Her computer works on my battery- after her computer charged my battery. I moved my battery back to my computer and it still does nothing!

Any thoughts, help or suggestions?