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    Acer Aspire 5551-2805 black screen. No POST, yes Power lights, no HD light.

    I ended up taking the whole thing apart, thinking I'd just pull or replace the CMOS battery. But found that the CMOS batter is soldered onto the motherboard. Anyone know how to upgrade the BIOS and make a bootable USB drive (and force the Acer to go to USB on bootup)? Without accessing the...
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    Acer laptop stats on black screen

    This exact thing is happening to me. Did you ever find a solution?
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    Acer Aspire 5551-2805 black screen. No POST, yes Power lights, no HD light.

    I have an Acer Aspire 5551-2805 running Windows 7. (AMD Athlon) When the battery was low, I closed the lid to go get the charger. After plugging the charger into the laptop, all I got was a black screen (no blinking cursor, no POST, just black). Many reboots later...still only black screen...