HI MY ACER LAPTOP COMPUTER 3 YEARS, WHEN I POWER ON, IT LIGHT UP, BUT DOES NOT SHOW ANY THING ON SCREEN, I Verify the hard drive is good, Memory is good, Power switch is good, and Power supply is good, Even I swatch the CPU. Any suggestion what wrong of my PC? timothy

Hello,

1. When you press the power button to turn it on, do you see any thing on screen, It probably should show an ACER logo?

2. Can you see a faint image of your desktop (try to see it in dark place with flash light). If you do see a faint image it could mean your back light is broken.

3. When you press the power button do you get different LED's lighting up on the laptop? IE power LED, hard drive LED?

4. Does your computer give you any random beeps when it starts up?

Please answer these questions and I would be more than happy to work through this with your.

Thanks RCCT

could be a number of things. Lets try to narrow it down.

When you turn on the computer do you see the hard drive light blinking at all? If not, i am leaning towards a failed motherboard. If there is a blinking or solid hard drive light try to hold a flashlight up to the screen to see if you can see any images. If the backlight (or ignitor) for the screen goes out, many times you can make out the screen if you hold a light source close to the screen.

Let us know that info and maybe we can help out a little further.

Good Luck

Hi, how are you?

To upgrade your laptop, you will have to verify the capacity for upgrade of your laptop.

The Acer Travelmate comes with:

Intel Celeron-M 360 Processor 1.4GHz

256MB DDR SDRAM -

40GB Hard Drive

DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive - To read DVDs and CDs and write CDs

15" XGA TFT Screen

Intel 852GM 64MB shared graphics

Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition

Based on this information, you can upgrade your memory depending on what type of memory your motherboard supports and how many empty slots for memory does your laptop have.

The hard drive can be upgraded also depending on which hard drives does the BIOS will recognize.

I will suggest to contact ACER and ask for the options and upgrades capacity.

God Bless You!!!

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The acer laptops were well known for getting to hot, and in some cases would cause hang ups. If you have two sticks of ram in the memory, swap out each one because I have seen bad ram cause freeze up and this a good test to check for potential bad ram. Next pull the internal hard drive out and power on the computer to check for acer logo and a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner, if all goes well! re-seat the hard drive back into place and attempt to reformat and dis-connect the external hard drive and any other external device. If you still have trouble, try the smart software to test the hard drive, if that is not available to you. The only other option is pull the internal hard drive and have it tested at a computer store for bad sectors. I suspect it is your hardware that is the problem, good luck and I hope this helps.

Unfortunately, this is most likely a sign of a failed hard drive.
To verify that this is the case, make sure that you have removed any CD/DVD disks, disconnected any external drives or thumb drives, and removed any diskettes from the diskette drive from the computer.
Once you're sure that you've disconnected and removed all of the above, power-off the laptop by pressing and hold the power button until the laptop completely shuts-down.
Once shut down, attempt to start the computer. If the computer again displays the "operating system not found" message, then your hard drive has most likely failed and lost most or all of the data that it had on it.
Take the laptop in to a reputable service center to have them verify that the drive has failed. If it has, have them replace the drive and install the operating system and applications that you had on the old hard drive.
If you didn't have a backup of the data on your computer, also have them attempt to save any data that they are able to off of the failed drive.
Once you have your laptop repaired and running again, I suggest that you subscribe to an online backup service like Mozy or Carbonite to back-up your data. It costs less than $60 a year and will protect you from the next hard drive failure.

The cable for the back light inverter board may have come off on the mother board side or on the screen side.

2) Failed inverter board.
3) Failed lamp.

This place will show you what the inverter board looks like: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/how-to-remove-inverter-and-replace-lcd-screen-in-compaq-presario-m2000-laptop/

There could be a problem with the battery. 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 & needs to be replaced.

If this did not help, try disassembling the laptop & re-seating its main components like the memory modules, hard disk drive, CD/DVD drive, etc.

My dear friend as I told you that you should change your RAMs it will b ok give me your response on [email protected]

Could be a bad memory chip or a hard drive crash. Can you hear the hard drive engage? If so, is there any clicking or dull thunking sounds? Both of these are indicators of a hard drive failure.

Hi,
This could be a Power/Switch Problem.
Faulty Hard-Drive.
Solution:- Leave the laptop turned Of And charge the battery to Full Capacity. ( usually between 4-16 Hours ) depending on capacity.
This will also fully charge the CMOS ( memory battery )
then boot the laptop up, and see if this solves your problem.
If not i,d suggest running a scandisk or hard-drive diagnostic program, to ensure that you have no Viruses-bad sectors on the hard-drive.
If you need further assistance please don,t hesitate to ask for more help and advice.
Mike @ Compurepair.