Acer Aspire 5002WLMi Boot Issue

I dug out my old Acer Aspire 5000 series (5002WLMi) laptop I had in my closet and was looking to get it up and running again.

One of the reasons it was retired (beside me getting a new laptop) was that it had a boot problem. When it happened, 1 out of every 10 times I tried to boot, the power light would come on, the optical drive would spin for a second and the cap lock and num lock lights would blink but the screen wouldn't turn on and it would sit there and do nothing.

It's not the battery or the power brick. I've opened it up and cleaned it with a can of compressed air.

It annoys me that over time, the issue became more often than not. Took my 4 tries to boot it up this morning so I could run the recovery on it.

Just occurred to my that I haven't tried testing the RAM but it should at least let me post and show an error, right?

*Edit: Weird... After doing a recovery, it's booting up without issue. Just booted it up 5 times!

 

glad your problem seems to have gone away...
you may want to update your BIOS if the PC has been retired that long, there may be a newer BIOS with some nice new features

 

It's doing it again. It's been in its box since June and I pulled it out to test today. It wouldn't boot the first 4 or 5 tries with the battery and AC plugged in. Then, it miraculously turned on and booted properly. Shut it down and rebooted about 12 times with no issue.

This is confusing. I remember checking that it has the latest BIOS.

 

then the BIOS is cool...

what does the laptop''s screen show when it fails to BOOT???
are there any error messages displayed??

i'm just trying to figure out what component it is failing to when it won't boot.

there has been a batch of acers that fail to see the HDD and actually report a message about the HDD not being found

 

Nothing at all on the screen. Doesn't come on, not even a black screen that's lit up.

I hear the fan spin up and the power light around the button is lit and that's it. I have to hold the power button for 5 seconds to force it off and then try until it boots.

 

Does the Bios keeps Date and time .

Or you have to set this up from time to time ?

 

The BIOS does indeed keep the time and date. Pretty confusing issue.

 

sounds like the COLD BOOT issue we had w/ the aspire 5315

if you are confortable with BIOS flashing,,, you might try a slightly OLDER bios VERSION...

it's either firmware or the power switch on the motherboard is "having issues"