Aspire e500. The power button is not working, it does not feel like it is hitting a connection. I am a beginner at this. Does anyone no how to fix in simple terms

Power down the laptop (press and hold the power button).

Try turning it back on, and hitting the F8 key to get boot options. Start in "Safe Mode" or some other configuration that worked and see if that fixes the issue.

If the screen does not show anything at all, try connecting the laptop to an external monitor while starting up.

Try connecting to another PC as you mentioned and format the drive as NTFS.Do a full format, not a quick format, and the drive should be in prime condition to be read by the OS installers.

If in windows, look under the "start" menu for "shutdown". If that doesn't work, most PC's will shutdown if you press and hold the power button for roughly 5 seconds, but doing this can be negative for the equipment if the operating system doesn't respond in time. You might try just pressing the power button one time to see if the O.S. will respond and attempt to shut itself down gracefully. If it doesn't, then just hold the power button in till the machine cuts off. Hopefully, you won't have to make a habit of that. The ideal way to shutdown is to "tell" the O.S. to shutdown, so it doesn't cause a hard drive head crash or file corruption, which while both are remote, are still a potential with a hard loss of power.
Good luck!

Hello,

Does it display the boot screen?

Do you hear a buzzer or a beeper go off inside?

Sometimes a boot can be stopped by the ram, this is generally made visable by a buzzer or a beeper going off, this will stop the computer to prevent damage.
If it is this, you can get a new ram for about £20, pc world etc, and if you keep the packaging in good condition, you can return it, and just say it didnt work, so you dont loose anything, but youd need to put it in your self, you just unplug the computer, take off the cover, release the ram clips, take the old ram out, and replace it with the new one.

2) Another weird thing which can stop the boot is the ....DVD drive.
I had the same problem before with one of my clients, and for some strange reason, when I removed the DVD player, the computer booted.
So try un connecting your DVD drives, and then try booting

3) Are there any sensors or buttons on the case?
Some PC's have sensors and buttons on the case, with cut of the power if you take the cover off while its running.
It could be that there is a button or a sensor not coming in contact with its connector, and therefore, preventing the computer to boot up.

I hope this helps you,

Jake

its the same way just about with all computers.... do this


restart computer
enter your bios
open your boot options
make sure your boot methods are as follows
1. cd-rom
2. floppy
3. hard drive disk


then you insert your windows OS make sure its a bootable disc then hit F10 for some computers to exit and save changes....

your computer will restart and then go through the loading then prompt you to hit any key to boot from cd.... make sure you dont actually look for the any key button lol!!!

Try to discinnect CD/DVD driver also when you power on main cor dont instantly power on case, wait 5 minutes and then try. Such kid of failureas are causer by power adaptor system. Also try bios reset put off battery and wait 5 minutes to reset CMOS also power cord must be unpluged. Unplug and plug power sources to mainboard. then turn on.

just enable your sata by going into your bios/cmos. configure it there save your changes and reboot our pc.

Turn off and on the power button by hand and press keys:
Ctrl+Alt in two finger and repeatedly hit the G key (if it's
not working try again by press them three the same time
down).

You will see the screen goes through some texts and
codes. And look at the bottom it say to hold down the F
key to uninstall Goback.

I held the F key for a while and let it go.

Turn the power button off by hand and back on again.( try
this method a couple of times)

If that doesn't work then try this link

http://pchell.com/support/autochknotfound.shtml

Check that all the power supply units are switched on( Wall Plug, UPS, CPU), If all is ok and the problem exists, replace the CMOS battery.( if the sys works replace your CMOS Battery, configure the cmos settings also)

You're not giving us enough to go on. "The other problem like this" is not listed here, so we can't refer to it. Is the power button connected properly? One way to check is to remove the board completely, connect the power supply and short the power pins. This will tell you if the board and power supply are working.