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Acer 5520G dead motherboard?

Discussion in 'Acer' started by Paws, Aug 7, 2009.

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Hi all,

I'm having a big headache with my 5520g. After turning on it goes by acer splash screen and just shuts off...5 second or so. Sometimes I can go into BIOS settings but the same thing happens again.
My local reseller told me it is probably a dead motherboard. Didn't get it to diagnostics cause don't want to spend money on that if it's major failure.
My warranty passed like 2 months ago
What do you people think, could it be something less expensive of a problem and is it even worthy to get it repaired?
How can I test the memory/graphics?

Big thanx.

Paws, Aug 7, 2009

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cc54 Notebook Enthusiast

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If you have access to a CD Burner, You can take a look at the ultimate boot disc. It includes Memtest and a lot of other diagnostics tools, It's free and I have had good success with it.

To burn the ISO in windows vista I use ImgBurn also free and worked well.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Good Luck

cc54, Aug 8, 2009

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weinter /dev/null

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When you can hit BIOS settings it is not dead.
Perharps some other peripheral failed.

weinter, Aug 8, 2009

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