When I press the power button to turn the computer on, nothing is displayed on the LCD screen. Power light, Hard Drive light, and Battery Light all appear normally. I hear the fan blowing internally and hard drive spinning, but nothing appears on the screen. This problem first happened periodically, but then after leaving the computer for several hours and trying again, the display appeared normally without any problems. There is no damage to the screen. It just does not appear at boot up.

Hold the power button down for about ten seconds and it'll actually turn off. Press the power button and see if it restarts.

If it seems like your system is running whereas you hear fans running, hear the hard drive running, see lights, heard the hard drive click during bootup, but there is nothing on the lcd screen then try the following:
1) Try hooking a external monitor to your laptop. It can be any type of monitor even one of the old style fat crt monitors as long as it has a vga cable to connect to the laptop. There is a sequence of keys you might have to hit to get the display to show on the external. Most times you hit the FN (Function key) and hold it while you hit the corresponding F1 thru F12 key that is for display. Usually the correct key will say CRT/LCD or it might have a display icon on it. If the image displays on the external monitor that means the video card is good.
2). Remove the external monitor and reboot the computer again. Now when it is done booting take a flashlight an shine it on the lcd screen. You are looking to see if you can faintly see the icons on the screen. If they are there but barely visible then the LCD Inverter is bad. The LCD Inverter is located at the bottom of the lcd screen just above the keyboard and the Strip around the lcd screen covers it. You'll have to take the lcd apart to get to it.
3) If you don't see anything when you shine a flashlight on the desktop, then the lcd screen has to be replaced. However, sometimes the cable on the back of the lcd screen has come aloose or just needs reseating, so unplug the cable and put it back then see if it shows an image.


Read Below if it is not booting at all when you press the power button.
Laptops don't boot for the following reasons: 1) Bad Power Cord. 2) Bad DC Power Jack where the power cord plugs into the laptop. 3) Static Charge Buildup. 4) Bad Motherboard.

The above 4 reasons are when you press the power button and absolutely nothing happens. You hear no fans running, no disk drive running, no one time clicking sound on the CD Drive and No light for a second or two when the CD drives click. In the case of a motherboard issue sometimes you will hear beep sounds or see blinking lights. Those beep sounds and blinking lights tells the technician what is going on with your motherboard and why it will not boot. If you see the blinking lights or hear beeps count them.

So you have a power light which means your power cord and dc power jack is good. So lets see if you have a static charge buildup.

Remove the Power Cord and the Battery from the laptop, then Press and Hold the Power Button for 30 seconds. After 30 seconds put the power cord back into the laptop, but leave the battery out. Press the power button to see if it boots. If it does you had a Static Charge Buildup and it's ok to put your battery back in. If it does not you more than likely have an issue with your motherboard.

If it seems like your system is running whereas you hear fans running, hear the hard drive running, see lights, heard the hard drive click during bootup, but there is nothing on the lcd screen then try the following:
1) Try hooking a external monitor to your laptop. It can be any type of monitor even one of the old style fat crt monitors as long as it has a vga cable to connect to the laptop. There is a sequence of keys you might have to hit to get the display to show on the external. Most times you hit the FN (Function key) and hold it while you hit the corresponding F1 thru F12 key that is for display. Usually the correct key will say CRT/LCD or it might have a display icon on it. If the image displays on the external monitor that means the video card is good.
2). Remove the external monitor and reboot the computer again. Now when it is done booting take a flashlight an shine it on the lcd screen. You are looking to see if you can faintly see the icons on the screen. If they are there but barely visible then the LCD Inverter is bad. The LCD Inverter is located at the bottom of the lcd screen just above the keyboard and the Strip around the lcd screen covers it. You'll have to take the lcd apart to get to it.
3) If you don't see anything when you shine a flashlight on the desktop, then the lcd screen has to be replaced. However, sometimes the cable on the back of the lcd screen has come aloose or just needs reseating, so unplug the cable and put it back then see if it shows an image.

Read Below if it is not booting at all when you press the power button.
Laptops don't boot for the following reasons: 1) Bad Power Cord. 2) Bad DC Power Jack where the power cord plugs into the laptop. 3) Static Charge Buildup. 4) Bad Motherboard.

The above 4 reasons are when you press the power button and absolutely nothing happens. You hear no fans running, no disk drive running, no one time clicking sound on the CD Drive and No light for a second or two when the CD drives click. In the case of a motherboard issue sometimes you will hear beep sounds or see blinking lights. Those beep sounds and blinking lights tells the technician what is going on with your motherboard and why it will not boot. If you see the blinking lights or hear beeps count them.

So you have a power light which means your power cord and dc power jack is good. So lets see if you have a static charge buildup.

Remove the Power Cord and the Battery from the laptop, then Press and Hold the Power Button for 30 seconds. After 30 seconds put the power cord back into the laptop, but leave the battery out. Press the power button to see if it boots. If it does you had a Static Charge Buildup and it's ok to put your battery back in. If it does not you more than likely have an issue with your motherboard.

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....

try to press and hold Fn and F8 - this is to toggle screen setting to ext and back to LCD on laptop. if nothing happens turn off computer by pressing power button, unplug the ac adapter, remove the battery. remvoe residual electricity from computer by pressing power button 10 times. just plug again the ac and leave the battery out. Pres and hold the letter D and while holding that press the power button once and release both of them. it will perform the built in self test on the lcd. if nothing happens, turn off computer. press anf hold Fn and while holding it press power button. it will perform diagnosis on computer. if still nothing happens need to repalce motherboard and LCD.

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Since there is no hard drive light, you could try unplugging it first, and try to boot and see if there would be any display on the LCD. If yes, you already isolated the problem that it is the Hard drive causing the " no display".

Try to do also the following: (draining flea power)

1. Remove the battery and ac adapter
2. Press and hold the power button for at least 10sec.
3. Put back the battery and ac adapter
4. Turn on the computer

Hope to hear from you soon.

If the problem is with the RAM or Hard drive then atleast you will get the access to the BIOS and this is not related to the hard drive or RAM as there is no display on the notebook.
If the Quick launch buttons are glowing then perform the following:
1. Remove the notebook battery and disconnect the AC adapter. 2. Press and hold the power button for a minute. 3. Reconnect the battery and AC adapter then try to turn on the notebook.
If the display still doesn't appear then, connect the notebook to external monitor and check the display on it. If there is any display on external monitor then the issue is with the LCD screen. If there is no display on external monitor then the notebook needs to be diagnosed by a technician at the service center.

Remove the battery the memory the ac adapter,the hard drive, the cd rom.Press and hold the power button down for twenty seconds.try again if no go you will have to replace the systemboard.
Good luck

Sounds like a classic case of hardware failure!!!!!!! possibly your motherboard, start by removing the battery, hard drive and optical drive.
disconnect the laptop monitor and connect the laptop to an external monitor.
remove the memory modules clean the brass contacts with a eraser and place back in the machine 1 at a time to check to see if they work, remember to plug in the AC power suppy, if you see the post screen then its a memory issue and you can then reconnect your laptop monitor to see if it lights up, if everything works but the monitor then its the inverter or backlight that has blown and is easily repairable saving you money on a brand new screen

oh no please stop,you do know that Fn-F1 puts the eeepc into sleep mode and Fn-F5 switches from internal to external monitor ,its very easy to hit these hotkeys accidently,im sorry i couldnt have told you this earlier