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    Acer 6920 doesn't boot, not even into BIOS

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Kasseev, Jun 27, 2012.

  1. Kasseev

    Kasseev Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sooo, I am very much suspecting a MoBo issue at this point, but I will try you guys anyway.

    I have persistent overheating problems on this model for the last 2 years of its 4 year lifespan, and I have been keeping it on life support basically by doing frequent thermal compound replacements manually with Arctic Silver on the CPU and GPU. Today same old story happened - CPU temps at 90+ C suddenly, thermal compound clearly fried. I went in there and replaced the compound, but somehow afterwards the laptop didn't even boot into BIOS.

    Symptoms:

    • Blue light stays on when pressed, impossible to turn off without yanking battery
    • Fan is audibly on
    • Touchpad on left side lights up and stays on
    • USB drives when plugged in flash once, then stay off
    • Screen is totally black, no ACER splash
    • No hard drive indicator or indicator of any kind around blue power button -
    • I double checked hard drive and it is perfectly fine, with all my data.
    • I took out all RAM (4gb) and tried again, and the same outcome - no beep codes or other developments

    I am pretty convinced it is the motherboard, but I am not sure if it was a spontaneous thing, because I remember spilling some drops of Arctic Silver 1 cleaning solution onto the chipboard near the GPU chip and then rapidly swabbing them up in panic - so maybe that did it?

    Do I have any hope of fixing this for less than the price of a new, better laptop, or am I SOL?
     
    Kasseev, Jun 27, 2012
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  2. iPhoneblaster

    iPhoneblaster Newbie

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    My acer 6920 last year had the same problem, but it shown the power light on, I tried lot of time but it never works. I went to the acer service station and they told me its power switch is spoiled, I paid them to change the switch they charge me 21$ and replaced. It is now still working good :)
     
    iPhoneblaster, Jun 28, 2012
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