acer 5672 died

i had my acer far a lil after a year and it died on me. i know it over heats like a fresh baked cinnamon roll in your hands. i added heat sinks to the chips helped a lil. anyway. laptop was running fine. played cod2,tf2 etc. i left it on playing music and all of a sudden, died. it just turned off. tried the power button and bought a new charger. still no go. i plug the ac adapter in without battery, nothing. when i plug it in i c the ac adapter blink. laptop shows no sign of life, none of the leds light up. i tore down the laptop for further inspection. cpu looks fine, memory looks fine, hard drive still works on my desktop. what can be wrong?

 

Do you have a warranty on it ? Where does the AC adapter blink ? Does the CPU fan work ?

Try removing all removable parts such as the ODD, Wifi, Modem board, battery, etc, and then boot.

Also, try different RAM modules if possible, or try the same ones, one at a time, in different slots.

If the above doesn't work, remove all sources of power, such as AC, Battery, USB Devices etc and then press the power button for 20 secs. Then reconnect and boot.

 

the whole laptop is disassemble right now. the led blinks on the charger itself not the laptop. its been dead for about 1 year. i just now had time to open it up. it died on me a few months after warranty.... which pissed me off. i tried the whole, hold it for 20-30 sec thing with everything unplugged. it didnt work. i couldnt find a single burnt spot on the mobo...



ill put it back together to c if it works. my gf's acer laptop just died also, but is a little differnt ill post another thread.

 

please help

 

I will help you by starting prey ...

But you have to send the laptop to ACER for repair .

 

hm.. how much is that gonna cost ?

 

standard out of warranty charges start at $449. US of course

 

wow thats the price of a used acer 5672. well thx for the response.

 

if the charge light flash they sort some where ether on mainboard

does charge light still flash when not pluged into the mainboard?

 

when it first died, it flashed. then later on i tried again and it turned solid on the charger. no activity on the laptop whatsoever. only light is on the charger itself.

 

Just to confirm in case it can save you some $$$, did you try turning it on with the battery removed using just the power supply? I know you said you tried it with everything unplugged, just want to be sure. When my battery went that's the only way I could get my machine to turn on. I didn't like running that way since anytime I bumped the connector I would lose what I was working on, but thanks to the Acer battery recall I did receive a free replacement just in time.

Oh, and if you give up and go for a used or different unit, post here if you're going to put your old one on eBay for parts...

 

yup i tried. i opened up the laptop and could not find a short of any kind. the ac plug seems fine.

 

I can buy an Acer 5315 for that.