Is my Acer Aspire 5672WLMi broken????

Hi guys, my problem is very much similar to the first thread in "is my acer aspire 5672 dead?" I've owned my 5672 aspire for now exactly 2 years, and yesterday while i was using it like a normal day surfing the web and listening to music, the screen just froze for like a minute...so tried to get the task manager but nothing happened, couldn't move the cursor or anything it was simply frozen....so decided to power it down holding down the power button.
Left it for a minute then tried to turn it on....after 3/4 seconds it would turn itself off, the screen is completely blank nothing appears....and also my warranty is finished (typical)....i stupidly spent £60 on a new battery thinking it was the battery, but im now thinking it's definitly something wrong internally...does anyone know how to fix it/solution to this problem?

 

take the battery out, remove the AC cord... hold the power button down 30 seconds..

plug the power back up and try to restart the PC

tell us what that does!!
any screen activity?
any lights (power, HDD, CD)?

 

I've done/tried all of that, removed the battery, and the AC cord, and held the power button etc...

When i turn it on the dvd drive makes a noise, the power button lights up and the power indicator lights up.....and there is no activity with the screen, it stays blank.....so all this happens for like 3/4 seconds then the laptop goes all quiet

 

and that is with the battery OUT??

if so you have suffered a serious hardware problem.... most likely something to do with the motherboard....

try removing the HDD,,, and taking the RAM OUT and testing w/ one stick of ram at a time... and NO HDD.... just to see if you can get the screen to light up and get into the BIOS!

 

Yeah take the RAM out and see if the motherboard angrily beeps at you. If it does, than that isn't the problem. If it doesn't beep, then 99% chance your motherboard is dead.

-J.B.

 

I've just inserted a cd into the drive.....it makes the noise as though it's reading it...but the screen is completely blank....
the power indicator light is on....but no activity on the screen

 

sorry didn't see the previous response...
Yeah is with the battery out....

Being honest with you...i'm not too comfortable removing the HDD and taking the RAM out as i dont know what i'd be doing.

 

try shining a flashlight on the screen at an angle.... see if you can see any image/text...

your SCREEN may have had it's inverter or back-light go bad?

 

Find one external CRT or TFT screen , and test it .

Look at your user manual, how you force the external VGA to become active .