hi im new with this stuff help plz?

hi i have an acer aspire 5315 that does not turn at all i sent it to acer and they said the mother board has waterdamage and htat it would cost 500 dollars to fix but i oculd go buy another one for a lil bit more than that so i went to a computer freak and he said he could salvage the mother board but he would have to replace the components and i want to know how to do this cause for reasons im nto goin in to i lost contact with him and i dont want to have to pay for a new laptop.so here are my questions.
1. wat are the components
2. how do i fix them/replace them
3. im new so it has to be a nub tutorial lol

 

If you have to replace the motherboard, it's going to be a difficult job, especially if you're not someone who has worked on laptops before. I have replaced LCDs and even built up a laptop from a bare bones, but I would consider replacing the motherboard to be a large task...

If Acer says the motherboard is bad, but your friend/techie says it's something else, you need to figure out who is right.

Krista

 

and how would i go about doing that?

 

Motherboards are normally replaced when faulty. It is just about an impossible task to reliably fix a motherboard that has died.

Reason being SMD technology is used for motherboard assembly. Without the proper tools and knowledge the board wil inevitably end up in an absolute mess. Seen it plenty times before.

Sorry,
Theo

 

Hiya, I am new here but not new to laptops and getting angry at them for breaking down.

I have gone through 4 laptops in 5-1/2 years and feel your pain. ALL of them had a motherboard that either died, fried or had broken solder "somewhere" in the maze. As mentioned in this thread already when your motherboard has issues replace it because rarely will you ever fix it good as new. You may find a steal on eBay for $150 as a parts leftover from someone but I never trust those because it ended up on eBay for a reason and since the motherboard is the heart and soul of a machine buying a used one is risky. Even if it works it may work only for a few months.

Taking a laptop apart is not easy and I only know how to because of the bad experiences I have had and you learn while doing it what to do and what not to do which sometimes you learn what not to do the hard way like I have done already once in the past on my first try where I shorted out the board with a soldering iron static spark.

Basically laptops because they are portable are victims of their own circumstance in that regard. They wear out, twist get dropped or a fat Aunt sits on it by mistake, if all of your Aunts are slim then you may get lucky with that. What I do IF you are going to try and repair it out of a lack of finance or a sense not having anything to lose by doing so, I would suggest doing an internet search for your specific model.

I had found a website that had a complete tear down of my Toshiba satellite m35x s-149 and completely removed the motherboard which in that model was extremely easy to do. My gateway solo laptop however was NOT very easy and it still sits as paperweight in my attic.

Good luck anyhoo and let us know what happens.

By the way I am the proud owner of an Acer Aspire I just boguth and came fresh off the mail truck yesterday. I came here after I imported my bookmarks from one of my PCs upstairs here to this laptop and *poof* here I be.

I state this because I fixed my Toshiba motherboard issue by buying a new laptop and will now curse the Toshiba to hell.

 

the techie said that it was the compobents and that the motherboard could salvage so wat are the components cause i figured out how to get to my processor i think it is it has the heatsink and the ram and wat i think is the video card but as i was inspecting it i found a lil black wire that was severed that led from the video card to the lcd this has nothing 2 do with it not turning on cause i would see the power light turn on. anyway ijust need to know wat parts to order so i can suprise my mom with me sitting on the couch with it and the relief that i fixed it with my money and labor saving mom money and anytips u can share

 

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lolz.


Okay anyway I can't help you much ... I can tell you that you already know the motherboard is waterdamaged supposedly. Someone in here has stated my opinion too which is that when you have a motherboard issue it is a very rare occurance to actually fix it.

If you suspect something else causing it you have to break down your laptop hardware piece by hardware to eliminate possible hardware issues.

example my Toshiba would turn off while using it or it would refuse to boot. My first thought was overheating so I took it apart to clean out the heatsink. It was clean as whistle.

So I suspected a ram issue, nope wasn't that.

I then proceded to remove piece by piece and trying to reboot after each thing was removed. removed the mousepad, the cd/dvd drive, keyboard etc until I had just the lcd monitor, harddrive that I knew worked and ram I knew that worked.

It still did it to me. I then used an external monitor and bypassed the lcd laptop monitor by removing it. You press the fn + f5 (on some laptops, may be F4 on Acer I have no clue .... haven't tried it yet) to use an external monitor. So with bare bones it still would not boot .... my answer was the motherboard was bad and I solved the problem by buying a new laptop as a motherboard would have been $400+

If you decide to try and find some hardware issue that is causing your ills you may just find it to be some simple thing like a bad battery, a bad mousepad or some other stupid thing.

Good luck to you in any case. I only went by what you posted about, more details like what exactly happens when you try to turn on the laptop would help. Do you at least get to the screen where you can choose to go into bios? No green led light at all? Does the thing do anything at all?

If it doesn't you could have a bad adpater that died .... does the adpater have an LED you can see?

Need more input in order to compute this issue.

 

i click the power button nothing happens lol

 

Okay .... well is the power adapter plugged in when you try it? Did you try the obvious like using just the battery with the power adapter completely unplugged?

If so is the battery charged? If your adapter is dead (I had asked you if you could see an LED on it to indicate it works) then your battery would be dead after it has run out of juice.

The odds of having a bad adapter and a bad battery at the same are very slim but not impossible either.

 

nope hte things on the LED on the adapter

 

Looks like you now own an expensive paperweight.

Bummer