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    Acer 1350 starts up but won't POST

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by BugglesBrains2, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. BugglesBrains2

    BugglesBrains2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I have an Acer 1350, when I press the power button the CPU fan comes on for five seconds or so, but the screen doesn't come on, and the hard drive doesn't seek. If I leave it on, after a few minutes the CPU fan comes on again, so obviously part of it is working, but it just won't boot up.
    The screen is definitely working fine because I've tested it on another Acer 1350, the hard drive is fine as well, also tested on another Acer 1350, the memory is fine, ditto.
    Does anybody have any ideas what could be causing this problem?
     
    BugglesBrains2, Oct 28, 2009
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  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Faulty motherboard/Graphics , what GPU do you have , it`s not an 8400 or 8600 is it?
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Oct 28, 2009
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    BugglesBrains2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, the GPU is a VIA/S3G KM400/KN400 according to Device Manager, I think. (That's the GPU in my other Acer 1350, I have two. The faulty laptop's graphics card has a fan on it, the working one doesn't, but the boards looked similar (they only connect on the bottom connector, not the middle one that's on the motherboard, there is a space on the graphics card (halfway up) where a connector could be attached but it's absent on both cards.

    Should I try taking the graphics card out of the working laptop and swapping it with the one in the faulty one? It will only take me twenty minutes, I'm getting good at stripping them down and putting them back together again!

    Many thanks for your help.
     
    BugglesBrains2, Oct 28, 2009
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  4. ATG

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    Could be a RAM problem.

    -Remove the RAM stick(s) then put em back in
    -Change the stick/slot config, for example put the stick from slot 1 en slot 2 and put the stick from slot 2 in slot 1. If you have one stick only just put it in the other RAM slot.
    -Try to boot with one stick only.

    If non of these work pull out the RAM of you other 1350 and put it on the faulty one.
     
    ATG, Oct 28, 2009
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  5. BugglesBrains2

    BugglesBrains2 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Many thanks ATG - that fixed it!
    I forgot that I had taken one stick of 256MB RAM out of the newer laptop and put it in the older one, and maybe at some point when I was removing the RAM from each laptop, I corrupted one with static.
    But that's no big deal, as long as the laptop itself is working, which is it! Cheers!
     
    BugglesBrains2, Oct 30, 2009
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