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by Karl Plesz on November 19th, 2007
Are you getting any indication at all? Are there any LEDs lit up anywhere on the laptop?
by Al4007 on June 10th, 2009
I have the exact same problem as well, I have an Acer TravelMate 250. When you turn on the LED power comes on, but the laptop doesn't come on and nothing runs either like the fan and the processor. And when the comp would usually heat up when the battery is plugged in, it's not even heating up now, and even when I just have the battery cord plugged in and not the comp, the cord/little black square itself isn't hot at all.
Any thoughts/Suggestions??
- ALI.
by Shenanigans on March 19th, 2008
Because Acer laptops all need to be thrown in the garbage-trash, it seems like everyone and their mother has a power problem with these laptops.
by Tempter on November 19th, 2007
This happened to me a few months ago with my dell about 3 years old, It cost me a 350 for a new motherboard.
by Namaste formerly future_health_educator on November 18th, 2007
Did you try plugging it in to the wall socket? Maybe something is wrong with your battery.
by Evan_P5186 on December 6th, 2010
I had a similar problem - put the laptop on hibernate, came back to it a few hours later and it wouldn't start up.
Charged it fully - I press the ON button then the green light goes off. I press the ON button a couple of times in quick succession, and the battery light flashes yellow five times.
Before, a solution was to remove the battery and replace it a few seconds later. This time though, it didn't work. After much Googling and so progress, I realised that I had not locked the battery in place after putting it back in. It seems an Acer laptop won't switch on if the battery is locked in. I locked it, then it came on without problem.
The problem happened again once more, then I took the battery out for abotu half an hour, and it worked.
So, in short, a combination of the following should get an Acer laptop to come back on:
- Charge battery until battery light goes green
- Remove the battery for 30-60 minutes
- Replace and make sure the battery is locked in.
Lesson learned: Don't use the Windows hibernate function on an Acer laptop!
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You're reading My laptop won't turn on! It's an Acer TravelMate 2428AWXCi, only a year old. It was fine this morning, I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. This is the first time it's happened. I press the power button and nothing. Can anyone help me???? :(
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Nothing at all, it's so strange :( I press the power button and a few times I've kept my finger on it for 30-60 seconds and still nothing. Although my battery cord is lit up, so weird. Do you think it would be drained or something? (the battery, not the comp, and it's not like a battery that slides onto the comp,it's just a cord)
by altgirl84 on November 19th, 2007
Theoretically, if the power cord is working, the laptop should come on, even if the battery is dead. Indications point toward something wrong with the laptop.
by Karl Plesz on November 20th, 2007
That's true too, although the light is lit up on the cord, it's not hot like it usually is. In regards to something being wrong with the laptop would you have idea what it is or how it could get fixed, or if any of my info would be lost by a solution?
by altgirl84 on November 20th, 2007
If the cord is lit up there is a very slim chance there is actually something wrong with the cord. As to what's wrong with the laptop given your symptoms - it could be anything. The battery is unlikely, but everything else is suspect - but only a service center can tell for sure.
by Karl Plesz on November 21st, 2007
An update: I took out the battery from the bottom of my laptop (turns out there is one that slides/pops out that I didn't know about lol) and plugged in the ac adapter and now it's working! So it must be the actual battery that's screwed up.
by altgirl84 on November 21st, 2007
Well, that's great news. This would be easier and cheaper to replace than anything else in the laptop.
by Karl Plesz on November 22nd, 2007