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    Laptop suddenly not working?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Rule106, Nov 4, 2012.

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    Wife was playing sims on her laptop, turned it off, went back on it later and now it doesn't work.

    It turns on, the fan works and the disk drive whirrs as if its trying to read the disk but the screen doesn't turn on, and I can't hear anything from the HDD. The HDD light isn't flashing either so I'm guessing its either the processor or motherboard.

    It's an Acer Aspire 5535 running Vista.

    If you need serial numbers or any other specifics just ask!

    Many thanks

    Anyone got an answer or suggestion?
     
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    Update 4/10/12 20:54
    I've just removed the backing of the laptop and turned it on. The processor gets hot so that rules it out and the fan works as well as all other components so it seems to be the screen. That's my theory anyway.

    Can anyone confirm this for me? Or have any other ideas?
     
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    If it was the screen it would have worked with an external screen and HDD LED would blink while system loaded in the background.
     
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    Yeah. Once google'ing the symptoms a lot of people had the same problem which was the GPU. It would be overheating because of the foam layer connecting it to the heat sink, so people were buying copper shims to replace the foam. I've tried it but nothing.

    The heat sink gets hot still right above both processors so they're working as far as I can make out.

    Any other things I should try?
     
    Rule106, Nov 11, 2012
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