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    Question Acre laptop shut down while performing disk cloning for SSD. Now laptop won’t turn on, power light blinks blue 5 times. Battery light not on.

    I’ve been using my laptop’s hard rive and it slows my Acer Laptop’s performance. The model is Aspire 3 A315-41-R2W5, with Ruben 5 AMD graphics card. My friend was helping me clone the disk drives into a new SSD card, where the SSD being cloned as an external hard drive. The laptop was plugged...
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    Question My dell laptop won't turn even though it brandnew

    I recently received a brand new dell inspiron 11 3162 and after a couple of days it stopped turning on i searched the internet and came across many methods but nothing worked. So i removed the battery (disconnected it) and ran it on direct ac and it worked fine then i reopened it connected the...