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    need some help with my aspire 3000

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Ominae, Jan 21, 2010.

  1. Ominae

    Ominae Newbie

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    Hi there

    fistly i have spent a few days lookin at the forums ti find a solution with not realy much luck at all.

    so here is my problem...
    2 weeks ago i found this forum for the los of keyboard an mouse bad problem with a dead battery kill the batt an all is good many thanx for that one but this is a contrebution to current prob as yu will see :).
    last week i was udating all my comps driers bios ect. i always do this once ever 4 months :).
    while doing the Aspire 3000 we had a major power cut for an hour **ahhhh e** can be heard in my room right in the middle of the bios update e on a stick i think this normaly means rather costly paper whieght.
    came back to these forums to find a solution iff one exsisted and found this thred....
    How to rescue your Acer 7720G from bios update failure

    i thought Yess this may work however it has not worked here is what i have done...

    I made the disk as was sujested but the thred starter said even made the second CD sujested by another guide poster in the thred..

    when i follow the instructions posted my power light and green network lights flash iff i plugg in hilding the Fn+Esc keys ...

    When i plugg the laptop in the power light and the fan both start up that is the only life i see in my laptop atm .......

    has any one got a solution i could try i realy need to get the laptop working agen iff at all poss......

    many thanx

    mark
     
    Ominae, Jan 21, 2010
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    Ominae Newbie

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    i forgotto mention the CD rom dose not spin up at all nore open when the laptop powers on....
     
    Ominae, Jan 21, 2010
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  3. Dython

    Dython Notebook Geek

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    plug in usb with a led ,, boot up look if its lights up 2x or long.
    if you dont get any led = dead
     
    Dython, Jan 21, 2010
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    plugg in a usb flash drive plugg in the laptop

    1. starts with lights flashing the power green network light an the usb led all jus flash

    2. power light comes on as dose the fan nothing els happens

    these are the 2 situations of power on for my laptop atm
     
    Ominae, Jan 22, 2010
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    Dython Notebook Geek

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    make a bootble dos usb stick with autoecex.bat to auto flash ( remove harddisk ) command --> phlash /s /x bios.wph , WAIT 3 MIN te be sure .
    if it helpt your lukky or send me your mail , ill send you a bios recovery
     
    Dython, Jan 22, 2010
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