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    Screen stopped working

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Skeedio, May 31, 2008.

  1. Skeedio

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    Sorry if this is in the wrong section but this one seemed to suit the subject the best.
    A few days ago my 1 year old Acer laptop's screen stopped working after it overheated. Usually it would just work fine after five minutes but now I can only hear the zooming sound but can't see anything on the screen. Has anybody else experienced this with Acer before? Is there a simple way to fix it?
     
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  2. pixelot

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    So you turn the laptop on, you hear a zooming sound, but the screen doesn't turn on. Correct?
     
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    Yes.. sometimes the zooming stops completely after a few seconds, other times it sounds just like its starting windows..
     
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    Ah. If you leave it for a while, can you blindly type in your password and hear a login sound? Otherwise, Windows may not be starting up at all, and it may be more than a screen problem.
     
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  5. Skeedio

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    I tried that but I don't hear anything.
    What else could it be? I'm just really unlucky, it happened 5 days after the 1 year support was over.
     
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    Danm bad luck....

    so you can't see anything even if you loog at the screen at an angle??
    you get no brightness at all??

    and can't see any hint of a windows screen??
     
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  7. Skeedio

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    Nothing it all.. its completely black like it lost the connection to the screen..
     
    Skeedio, May 31, 2008
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    do you have an old monitor you could plug into the external connection assuming it has one

    bigO
     
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  9. Skeedio

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    I tried connecting it using the cable with pins that came with the monitor but the monitor didn't seem to receive a signal because it kept going on standby without showing anything.
     
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    sounds like a mother boad failure

    take ram out,,, then replace it w/ just 1 stck.... see if anything different happens
     
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    It does sound like more than just the screen. :(
     
    pixelot, Jun 1, 2008
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