Aspiring for a fix!!!

[Bad Sport]

Got an Acer Aspire 5517 that is making me want to burn it. When I turn it on the power light comes on but I get no activity light, like it normally did when booting up.

An one have any ideas? I was thinking maybe stuck in sleep mode, because it was working fine and walked away for a bit, when the wife came back to it, it was like it went into sleep mode and won't wake up.

Thought I would bounce it off some of the gurus here before taking it in for a repair.

It's a great "beater" laptop that we use for just plunking around outside, in the garage etc. I don't want to use my good one for those purposes.

It's loaded with Winhoz 7 (as Del would say, lol) and it always worked flawlessly.

Oh Greg, where art thou?

 

[74Dusted]

If it has actually gone into Stand By, Sleep or Hibernation mode you should be able to bring it out by simply pressing any button on the keyboard.

It may have Froze/Locked up in Sleep Mode though, in which case unplug the charger, remove the battery, put the battery back in, plug it back in and turn it on again.

 

[Bad Sport]

If it has actually gone into Stand By, Sleep or Hibernation mode you should be able to bring it out by simply pressing any button on the keyboard.

It may have Froze/Locked up in Sleep Mode though, in which case unplug the charger, remove the battery, put the battery back in, plug it back in and turn it on again.

Been there, done that, to all of the above. I may try it again here in a bit.

 

[74Dusted]

Been there, done that, to all of the above. I may try it again here in a bit.

In which case, a component may have failed.

I'm not sure if the Aspire has a Diagnostic Test on start up (most computers do, enabled by pressing or holding certain buttons during powering up). It'll beep x amount of times (as a code) for hardware failures.

The ones I know of that will cause a laptop to do nothing are a Motherboard Failure, RAM Failure or Graphics Card Failure (usually an Onboard Card, part of the Motherboard, some laptops have a separate card that can be replaced). RAM Failures are pretty easy to troubleshoot, remove the RAM Stick(s) and if it powers up, you've found the problem.

Usually a Hard Disk (and or Hard Disk Controller) Failure just results in a "Hard Disk Failure" or "Unable to Locate Operating System" error during boot up.

 

[GEO]

This will fix the problem

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRVADzNak4"]Professor destroys laptop - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Bad Sport]

This will fix the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRVADzNak4

Lol, that may be in it's future!

 

[Bad Sport]

So, after scrathin' my head for a bit, I pulled the memory card out.

Some of the contacts looked a little darker than the others, I took a pencil eraser and cleaned all of the pins on both sides of the card, stuck it back in and turned on the power.

Would you believe it booted right up and is working flawlessly again!!!!!!!!!


My wife had taken it to a guy a while back, because she likes this computer the best out of the 4 laptops, and 2 PCs that we own and he told her that, it was this, that and the other and offered her 80 dollars for it.

She turned him down, and I'm glad she did!!!


This little head scratcher has me wondering just how many people possibly get taken by some of these computer shops that could be a little unscrupulous.

 

[inkjunkie]

I have a 50bmg rifle & a S&W 500 Magnum.....if you would like to borrow one let me know.....

 

[inkjunkie]

This little head scratcher has me wondering just how many people possibly get taken by some of these computer shops that could be a little unscrupulous.

There was a little shop in Mesa Az, on the other side of town form me that fit this to a "T". They always treated me good on parts....but they hosed people big time on repairs....

 

[Bad Sport]

Yeah, for someone a little less persistent, would have taken this in for repair. I was getting ready too, it makes me cringe to think such a simple fix could cost someone big money.

 

[65LoveAffair]

Some of the biggest crooks are the so-called experts at one of the big box stores. I won't mention names, but I call the store "Worst Sell" if that tells you anything. I have a friend that used to work for them and he said it was common practice to put viruses on customer computers just to charge people out the *** for removal. And their method of removal is to just wipe the hard drive. Then they could charge people for the operating system reinstallation and data transfer if there was anything the customer wanted to keep.

 

[RustyRatRod]

My little Aspire One netbook is on the way out, so if I suddenly disappear, yall know what happened. lol

 

[Bad Sport]

My little Aspire One netbook is on the way out, so if I suddenly disappear, yall know what happened. lol

Still no go on the USB device?

 

[GEO]

So, after scrathin' my head for a bit, I pulled the memory card out.

Some of the contacts looked a little darker than the others, I took a pencil eraser and cleaned all of the pins on both sides of the card, stuck it back in and turned on the power.

Would you believe it booted right up and is working flawlessly again!!!!!!!!!


My wife had taken it to a guy a while back, because she likes this computer the best out of the 4 laptops, and 2 PCs that we own and he told her that, it was this, that and the other and offered her 80 dollars for it.

She turned him down, and I'm glad she did!!!


This little head scratcher has me wondering just how many people possibly get taken by some of these computer shops that could be a little unscrupulous.

Your wife must have been downloading **** at an alarming rate for it to have burnt the contacts like that:blob: