Acer Aspire 7535G Help Needed

[CamronL]

Hi folks, I have an issue with a laptop and after troubleshooting everything I can do myself with the equipment I have, I thought I would come along and see if someone who knows a little more about laptops than myself.

The problem I am facing is that I can't seem to get the laptop to boot. It gives me a brief Acer splash screen but then goes completely black. The brightness isn't an issue as there is no feint picture in the screen, also I cannot get in to the BIOS or the Boot Menu, as the system just goes black and I can't do nothing more after that.

If I try to put a disk in, say Windows 7 to try the boot menu, it is almost as if it skips the splash screen and just flashes white and then back to black again.

I have tried rigging it up to an external monitor, but I got no joy. That was via HDMI however, so I could try VGA when I next get the chance.

I have the following things I would love to try, but I am not sure if I should spend the money trying if it is just dead. I could buy a battery, I am currently trying to boot it using only the AC adapter, not sure if that would change anything? I could also buy a brand new hard drive, and see if it is that issue, however I know the hard drives I have tried in it work perfectly.

The last thing I can think of is that the graphics card is faulty, so would a replacement fix this or would it just be senseless money spent?

Exact system specs are as follows if it helps;
Acer Aspire 7535G
AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-82 @ 2.2Ghz
1GB Ram (Temp during the repair, will be going up to 4GB or higher when functional)
HD Radeon 4570 512MB dedicated GPU
60GB OCZ Agility 3 (Again, mainly for the repair, will either upgrade to a 120GB SSD or 500GB mechanical)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Camron.

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

It seems like you've pretty much done all the possible troubleshooting steps that should have fixed it already. Here are some list of troubleshooting steps that I would have done.

- Hard Reboot
- Reseating RAM
- Trying a different AC adapter
- Testing the laptop without battery
- Lastly, connecting an external monitor
- If all these will not work then the problem lies inside the motherboard already.
- A repair of if or if you know how to reflow a GPU that would be great as well.

 

[CamronL]

Hi,

It seems like you've pretty much done all the possible troubleshooting steps that should have fixed it already. Here are some list of troubleshooting steps that I would have done.

- Hard Reboot
- Reseating RAM
- Trying a different AC adapter
- Testing the laptop without battery
- Lastly, connecting an external monitor
- If all these will not work then the problem lies inside the motherboard already.
- A repair of if or if you know how to reflow a GPU that would be great as well.

Thanks for the quick reply.

-How would I go about a hard reset? I have tried booting with no Hard Drive installed and come to no joy.
-I have reseated the ram more than I would like to admit.
-I think I might try a genuine charger as I didn't have one for the exact laptop, so I just went with what worked, which might have been the problem.
-The laptop has no battery right now, so that one is covered
-I have tried HDMI connections, but got no joy, I will try a VGA tomorrow and see how it goes.

I have had the laptop apart already, pretty much just to re-apply thermal paste to both the CPU and GPU, so opening it again, as much as it is a pain, I could do. Would replacing the GPU not work instead of reflowing? I have found the exact model of my GPU on ebay for around £20 and it seems as easy as simply switching the card, or am I getting Laptop Dedicated Graphics completely wrong?

Sorry if I sound dumb or something, give me a desktop to work on and I'm dandy, but other than replacing items on laptops, I haven't had too much experience.