Is my Acer Aspire 5672 dead??

I have owned my Acer 5672 Aspire for over a year. One day I went to check my mail, I let it load and went to the bathroom. When I came back the whole screen was frozen. I could not move my mouse. I could not get task manager. I had to hold the power button down, to turn it off. When I turned it on all I get is a black screen as if it were off. I do not get the Acer load up screen, meaning I cannot get into the BIOS. Pretty much its a brick. I also noticed that the fan would run, then it would just stop, while it is on. I am out of warranty so I am forseeing a third party repair, is there any chance that I can get it repaired??

 

Any lights have you try remove the battery and all power pull out the ram and reseating it all

The fan spin up then stop normal

when reach cert termpture they will kick back in

 

The lights on the power butten are on. On the front I have two green lights. One for ac power, and the one for the pc on. Like I said, it is just a black screen, as if it were not on.

 

I had something similar happen to my laptop. I am not sure exactly what went wrong, but something similar happened. Powered it off normally, and then it refused to start up. Complete black screen of death. Although I think it was running through startup procedures. I would have wagered that my video card was dead, since connecting an external monitor still didn't display a picture.

I would try to connect an external monitor to yours and see if anything happens. The way mine got fixed was an RMA, since it was brand new. But an external monitor would rule out the LCD screen. Also try to see if it is running through startup, but you just can't see anything. Like if you have boot from CD, put a CD in there, and see if it spins up. Or if windows makes the startup sound.

 

some time remove ram and power on see if change the lights?

you won,nt get display but it shound get diffent error / lights

 

A bit silly, but make sure you didn't accidentally press CTRL+F6. I did a while back and the laptop appeared ok, but I couldn't get the screen to work. Moving mouse, resetting, nothing helped.....until I moved my finger on the touchpad and the LCD came back to life.

Freaked me out the first time it happened, but now I love the feature and often press CTRL+F6 to turn off the LCD backlight instead of closing the lid. I doubt this is your problem, but worth a try.

 

Guys...i was fiddling around with it, and somehow it turned on!! it loads and everything...however i jsut noticed that it is only recognizing 1.0 gb of ram can someone help me figure out how to get it to recognize 2??

 

Take the back cover off and reseated the ram
it be the big cover on back
make sure you take power and battery off it firsted

 

No use, it just recognizes 1gb....i thought a clean install was going to work

 

what type ram do you have in it?

 

ive tried that...there are only two sockets..each one are used up by the ram..i ono wat to do now..i mean i have a hp pavillion 9320us coming in...shoot i mean the acer is still good...

 

wait...nvm...i got it in and now it recognizes...

 

Does it recognize it in the BIOS but not in windows, or does it not recognize it anywhere?

 

I dunno what is going on, but my Aspire works now, and it recognizes everything....weird...so now i have two laptops!!!

 

curios also why don,nt you try load newest bios on if you don,nt already

 

i dunno why i didnt update the bios....actually i may do that..

 

Hi guys, my problem is very much similar to the first thread "is my acer aspire 5672 dead?" I've owned my 5672 aspire for now exactly 2 years, and yesterday while i was using it like a normal day surfing the web and listening to music, the screen just froze for like a minute...so tried to get the task manager but nothing happened, couldn't move the cursor or anything it was simply frozen....so decided to power it down holding down the power button.
Left it for a minute then tried to turn it on....after 3/4 seconds it would turn itself off, the screen is completely blank nothing appears....and also my warranty is finished (typical)....how did you guys manage to fix it?

 

i think he just waited abit and tried it later on in the day!!!

he may have also removed the RAM MEMORY from the motherboard and re-inserted it!