need help :(

Hey guys i own an Acer Aspire 9300 and i woke up this mornin to find out when i turn it on, the power button lights up but nothing happens, its just dead ! can open and close the disc tray so theres power there but nothing at all loads up. tried taking the battery out and putting it back in but it doesnt solve anything.

any1 have any ideas as to how i can get it working again?

thanks in advance

 

Maybe your BIOS is having an issue. Try to locate the CMOS battery for the BIOS, unplug it for a minute or two and plug it back in. See if that works.

 

how i do find the CMOS battery ? haha

 

Well...I'm guessing you have to open up the back panel of your computer and try to find a round battery to unplug. In some laptops, this part is unservicable (meaning you have to take the whole computer apart to get to it; poor design), but I think in most laptops you should find some round battery in there to unplug and put it back in. If that doesn't work, you can try seeing if the processor, hard drive, or RAM has gone bad (it's known to happen). If all else fails, you will need to send it in for servicing.

 

right okay - thanks lot for the reply

 

any indacation the hard drive is running ?
have you tried FN+F5 ?

also on most acer laptops there is a COMS reset under the ram.
so before you start pulling the laptop to bits try this.
unplug power,take out battery. then hold down the power on button for 15 seconds.try this first then get back to me.

 

erm i dnt know whether the HD is running or not. tried FN and f5 - didnt work
also tried holding the power button for 15+ secs without battery connected and that didnt work either

cudnt take it apart btw - unscrewed everything but the back wudnt come off and i didnt wanna force it

 

ok let me do some looking for you on the coms reset tabs(normaly under ram)
all you do is conect the two solder points with a paperclip....

are you getting a flashing cursor.?
can you try connecting an external monitor?
EDIT: the power reset should have powerd down the cmos
can you get into the bios screen?

 

hmm i dnt kno enough about hardware to be doing these things

cnt get onto the bios no the screen doesnt come on at all because nothing loads at all. no noise coming from the laptop what so ever unless i put a disc in. then when i turn it off theres jst a slight click sound of it going off. jst seems totally lifeless - and it was working perfectly last nite

 

try ALT+F10. factory restore, sorry but your going to loose all data if that works.
but it sounds like a dead hard drive.

catch you later. 1.45am here,time for bed.
night

 

reeto cheers for the advice

 

Sounds like damaged motherboard ... contact ACER service .

The tips that you got , solves usually minor issues .
It looks that you have a major one .

 

sir just wanna know how to reset the bios without taking out the cmos baterry? which have you said below the memory.. is this seems like the desktop which have a jumper..as you have said connect with a paperclip..
for further information sir, can you post here a picture?

 

I think you'll only see two pins, no jumper. That is way you'll need a paperclip or a copper wire or something. I believe there was some writing aside saying "CMOS reset or something" and yes, it should be below the RAM(below, NOT under).

 

ACER have two ways of resetting the cmos one is the power button hold down for 15-20 seconds with no power connected to the laptop.
the other is the jumpers under the ram, the jumpers will have the JP1 lettering printed near them..you will need a magnifying glass to see it.

with all things like this TAKE CARE.

MOON Mate it sounds like mobo is shagged mate

 

yer i thought it might be the mobo. that sux. will my HD still be okay to get the data off?

 

yes, just get yourself a caddie from maplins or pcworld...i now do all my back-ups on an old laptop hard drive from a dead laptop.
£19 best investment ever

 

whats a caddie? i kno how to remove the HD from my dead laptop. im guessing u can jst slot it into it and connect it to a pc via a USB or sumin?

 

Pretty much yes!!!!

 

whats caddie slang for lol

 

Enclosure, I believe.

Also, I think it's not a slang, I think it's "caddie" in UK and "enclosure" in US.

 

sorry Moon mate.
a caddie is an enclosure you yourself put an hard drive in , say to retreive data from a broken pc/laptop or if you have an old hard drive just collecting dust in a draw put that in a caddie .so you can use it to store back-ups,mp3s and the film collection

see link.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?menuno=84399

i have a couple for 2.5 & 3.5 inch drives.

its a good way of using old hard drives and saves on using dvd/cd's.

 

ahh reeto cheers matey. How does it work then do i slot my HDD into it or sumin the it connects to a PC? my Hard drive has two card like slots coming out from it - one big one small

 

i can hot swap mine, so I just drop the hard drive in an vista just see's it. i open it in file view and bingo i can get all my lost info back

on the hard drive is a data sticker so you know what its and how to connect it to the caddie..
good luck
Phil