My Acer Aspire 5920 died suddenly...

Hi...

I was facing a disastrous situation a few days back. Luckily for me, I had just bought a new machine and had just finished transfering all my data so I was saved by the skin of my teeth...

Anyways, I had left the Acer plugged into the power socket in the wall. There was a power problem in our building and the electricity went and came back about 4-5 times over a span of 30 mins. This has happened before so I paid no attention to it. However, after the electricity supply stabilized, I casually looked to see that the charging lights on the Acer was not on. I unplugged the machine from the wall and tried to start it up - nothing happened. I took out the battery waited for a few minutes, put it back in and tried to start it up - again, nothing happened. I took out the battery and plugged the machine into the power socket in the wall and tried to start it up - again, nothing happened. As it stands, the Acer is dead.

The specs are T6660 (I am not quite sure about this but its something close), 2GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, Vista Home, integrated graphics (X3100).

One other point. You know the power brick from Acer has a green light on it which comes on when you have it plugged into the power socket on the wall. When I attached the power chord to the machine, the green light becomes dim and flickers. However, when I disconnect it from the machine, but keep it plugged into the power source on the wall, the light is on as it should be.

Can you tell me what is most likely to have gone wrong with my machine. I was thinking of using it as a desktop at home for everyone to use. But now I am back to where I originally was - with one machine which travels with me!

Thanks in advance for your advise/insights.

Cheers!

 

Either try a different AC adapter, or test the adapter with a multimeter. Almost likely the AC adapter is toast

 

Thanks. But without the adapter the machine also does not power up on the battery, which was fully charged up.

 

Keep the power button pushed in for about 40 seconds or so. Then try to start it up on battery power. Also try with battery out/power in, and with both in. Never know...

 

The Aspire 5920 has a very, very common V+/Gnd short caused by two ceramic capacitors failing. They are located under the access door on the bottom of the unit, near the RAM sockets.

http://www.fixya.com/support/t2804733-5920_will_not_turn_adaptor_green_light

This article should point you in the right direction, as it was written a while back by a coworker of mine. Saves me the trouble of having to retype it.

 

Oh...wow! Thanks a lot. I am going to try this and see if it works. I'll post results. Again, thanks.

 

@Pott...I tried that...but no joy.

 

Got same issue here.

5920 dead, AC adapter LED flickering when connected. Tried a fully charged battery from a similar machine, still dead, no lights or fans coming on when power button pressed.

Also I've tried using a different AC adapter, no change.

Anyone else come across any info regarding this fault?

 

So.

You may have a damaged adapter. You could plug it into some 'generous' persons acer to see what happens or take it to someone who can check the voltage and regulation and transient suppression under load etc. Personally if it took enough abuse to blow the laptop even if it is producing the right voltage it would still be in my bin as a new one is cheaper to me than 24 hours soak testing it followed by the worry.

It seems it passed through a voltage spike that damaged the power control circuits in your laptop. Opening it up you may see blackened components or smoke marks on the board in which case a local repairer might be willing to have a go at replacing those components (if they can figure out what they were). Otherwise I think you need an authorised repairer to have look.