Laptop not booting
PostPosted: 01 Jan 2015, 07:06
So, got this Acer Aspire 5536 that won't boot. It starts, fans go, hard drive spins, power light is on, black screen. When this first happened after a few goes of turning it on and off it would start up.
Tried the following:
-power reset
-running on mains
-changing the thermal paste (problem known for this make with overheating issues)
-changing the lithium 3V battery on the motherboard
-trying the RAM one at a time (its got 4gb of RAM)
-trying the hard drive in another computer, it has the BIOS come on and Vista begins to start but then it wants to go into repair. All the stuff was on there though, and it had a problem not too long before with malware. I've scanned the hard drive with two different security softwares and all problems appear to be resolved.
-using another hard drive that does work
Any ideas?
Tried the following:
-power reset
-running on mains
-changing the thermal paste (problem known for this make with overheating issues)
-changing the lithium 3V battery on the motherboard
-trying the RAM one at a time (its got 4gb of RAM)
-trying the hard drive in another computer, it has the BIOS come on and Vista begins to start but then it wants to go into repair. All the stuff was on there though, and it had a problem not too long before with malware. I've scanned the hard drive with two different security softwares and all problems appear to be resolved.
-using another hard drive that does work
Any ideas?