Hello,
I bought a broken laptop so that I could fix it up and make it cheaper than buying one new. Boy did I pick a fix'er upper. I bought a broken Acer Aspire 5315-2698 It has a socket P - Intel Celron processor 560. It's a 2.13ghz with 533mhz FSB, 1 MB L cache. The mother board is a ILC50 LA-3551P REV:3.0 I bought a new motherboard cause the one I have was broken, When my new MOBO arrived I installed it and it does the EXACT same thing. Now I don't know if I just bought another broken MOBO or am I missing something here ?? I am a computer tech so here is what it's doing. You hit the power button on and the power light comes on green and the charging light ( for the battery ) comes on and it will charge the battery. I get no post, the fan runs for about 5 sec. and if you put your down to the laptop you hear the HD stop running about the same time the fan stops, plus you can feel it if you hold the laptop. I have done everything that I know, Cleaned the board, The CMOS battery is soldered onto the board so you have to short the battery to clear the CMOS. While holding the power button pushed down for 1 min., I have taken the battery out and AC adapter and layed a butter knive across the battery leads while holding the power button down for 1 min. plus I have researched on line and found that this is a very common issue with this motherboard. The screen never comes on and I have hooked up an external monitor to see if it's just the screen but that didn't work either. I have checked the ram and the processor. I took out each piece of the laptop and checked it with every piece I took out to debud if any hardware was causing the issue. I started with the DVD rom drive, checked it and the same thing, fan runs 5 sec. and stops - no post and then I took out the Hard Drive, battery, Wi-Fi card, Ram, keyboard, all the way down to just the bare mobo and with each item I took off all the same results. I seen where some people were able to use a flash drive for a BIOS update by pressing function f5 when it turns on but it wont boot to a USB flash drive either. I amabout to go insane working and buying parts. By now I could have bought a new laptop. At this point it is a challange to fix it and I want to know if anyone know what's going on or how to fix this issue. Is it the BIOS. Because the chargeing light works and it charges my battery fully and the light beside the charging comes on and stays green as well untill I hold the power button in for 10 sec. to turn it off. Can anyone please advise ?
I bought a broken laptop so that I could fix it up and make it cheaper than buying one new. Boy did I pick a fix'er upper. I bought a broken Acer Aspire 5315-2698 It has a socket P - Intel Celron processor 560. It's a 2.13ghz with 533mhz FSB, 1 MB L cache. The mother board is a ILC50 LA-3551P REV:3.0 I bought a new motherboard cause the one I have was broken, When my new MOBO arrived I installed it and it does the EXACT same thing. Now I don't know if I just bought another broken MOBO or am I missing something here ?? I am a computer tech so here is what it's doing. You hit the power button on and the power light comes on green and the charging light ( for the battery ) comes on and it will charge the battery. I get no post, the fan runs for about 5 sec. and if you put your down to the laptop you hear the HD stop running about the same time the fan stops, plus you can feel it if you hold the laptop. I have done everything that I know, Cleaned the board, The CMOS battery is soldered onto the board so you have to short the battery to clear the CMOS. While holding the power button pushed down for 1 min., I have taken the battery out and AC adapter and layed a butter knive across the battery leads while holding the power button down for 1 min. plus I have researched on line and found that this is a very common issue with this motherboard. The screen never comes on and I have hooked up an external monitor to see if it's just the screen but that didn't work either. I have checked the ram and the processor. I took out each piece of the laptop and checked it with every piece I took out to debud if any hardware was causing the issue. I started with the DVD rom drive, checked it and the same thing, fan runs 5 sec. and stops - no post and then I took out the Hard Drive, battery, Wi-Fi card, Ram, keyboard, all the way down to just the bare mobo and with each item I took off all the same results. I seen where some people were able to use a flash drive for a BIOS update by pressing function f5 when it turns on but it wont boot to a USB flash drive either. I amabout to go insane working and buying parts. By now I could have bought a new laptop. At this point it is a challange to fix it and I want to know if anyone know what's going on or how to fix this issue. Is it the BIOS. Because the chargeing light works and it charges my battery fully and the light beside the charging comes on and stays green as well untill I hold the power button in for 10 sec. to turn it off. Can anyone please advise ?