Asus aspire e1-522 wont turn on

[thestugzz1]

The laptop gives a orange light on the battery Icon , only when both ac adapter and battery are connected.
I've Checked If It was the charger, and It wasnt , the laptop still doesnt turn on. could someone help me please?

 

[thestugzz1]

Yes apu means that. But can you remove or is it soldered to motherboard?

It is soldered, and I will give you the specs
Cpu: quad core 1,50ghz
Ram: 6gb (one added)
600HDD
Graphics card : AMD Radeon HD 8400

 

[thestugzz1]

Yes apu means that. But can you remove or is it soldered to motherboard?

I'm sending this post (in the computer that has insues), as you can see I did manage to start it by trying to click the power button after 30/50 minutes after I had encountered the problem once again.
Here are the pictures I managed to screenshot of my specs:

https/ibb.co/j36k7x
https/ibb.co/bvRUZc

 

[fagetti]

Flash newest bios when its working, even if its same version than you already have just reflash it, disable antivirus and firewall while flashing and use always power cable connected. Look acer site with your model number and bios / firmware, download latest version.

im not sure if this apu can fail like this. Try boot it like 20-30 times. Just press power button and mark down how many time it boots and when not (force restart with power button).
If its like 50/50 boot or not then most likely issue with integrated graphics

 

[thestugzz1]

Flash newest bios when its working, even if its same version than you already have just reflash it, disable antivirus and firewall while flashing and use always power cable connected. Look acer site with your model number and bios / firmware, download latest version.

im not sure if this apu can fail like this. Try boot it like 20-30 times. Just press power button and mark down how many time it boots and when not (force restart with power button).
If its like 50/50 boot or not then most likely issue with integrated graphics

what do you mean by flashing bios? And by booting you mean shut down the computer and power it up again?

 

[thestugzz1]

Flash newest bios when its working, even if its same version than you already have just reflash it, disable antivirus and firewall while flashing and use always power cable connected. Look acer site with your model number and bios / firmware, download latest version.

im not sure if this apu can fail like this. Try boot it like 20-30 times. Just press power button and mark down how many time it boots and when not (force restart with power button).
If its like 50/50 boot or not then most likely issue with integrated graphics

I flashed the bios already, and there was a new version avaialable
But when I have the problem, I dont even hear my fan spinning, the light of the power is off, the light of the HDD is off and the light of Wi-Fi is off, the only light that appears is the battery light, but when the pc decides to start I hear the HDD the fan etc

 

[fagetti]

I had like 10 laptops (none had APU btw) with this problem. I try booting up and 50% it works and other times it wont even recodnize ram missing. You can clearly see the "non working state" seems similar. I just dont know how APU integrated graphics would fail like this, mostly problem was northbridge on these laptop.s

i mean close laptop. Then boot it, if it starts force shutoff again and boot it up like 10 times and see how many of those times it works and how many times it goes to this "non working state"

 

[fagetti]

Heat your laptop a bit by covering fan holes for 15mins or so.. dont let it overheat too much though or it can die completely. If you get laptop working 100% of 5 attemps then this is APU graphics related.

 

[thestugzz1]

I had like 10 laptops (none had APU btw) with this problem. I try booting up and 50% it works and other times it wont even recodnize ram missing. You can clearly see the "non working state" seems similar. I just dont know how APU integrated graphics would fail like this, mostly problem was northbridge on these laptop.s

i mean close laptop. Then boot it, if it starts force shutoff again and boot it up like 10 times and see how many of those times it works and how many times it goes to this "non working state"

I went to bed because Its late, but I did shutdown the pc, and booted and it worked 100% of the times (6 tries) tomorrow I will try to boot even more, and in the boots I tookoff battery, and usedpower supply, also I did try to take out the ac after and then booted , did this 3 times and worked normaly for now 6 boots 100% sucessfull, Il update you more tomorrow good night!

 

[fagetti]

Im busy tomorrow but weekend can help

 

[thestugzz1]

Im busy tomorrow but weekend can help

Roger that, I will tryto cover the holes If the problem continues tomorrow

 

[fagetti]

That covering holes was just for testing if its gpu related. It might be also one capacitor gone bad in motherboard, but troubleshooting this would require multimeter at minumum.

Just for the heck of it download memtest for usb / dvd and run couple of passes, if it wont give any errors we can say its not atleast memory related.

You could try doing mild reflow on the APU, nothing near melting solder but just to see if its failing connection inside chip which can be fixed for a short period without even going 220c temperature. https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvvQ10hlgb0 Dont do this long and high temperature, you just need 100-150c to test this, if it works for next 50-100 boots then issue is surely this.
Complete fix would be replacing chip if this is the problem.

 

[thestugzz1]

That covering holes was just for testing if its gpu related. It might be also one capacitor gone bad in motherboard, but troubleshooting this would require multimeter at minumum.

Just for the heck of it download memtest for usb / dvd and run couple of passes, if it wont give any errors we can say its not atleast memory related.

You could try doing mild reflow on the APU, nothing near melting solder but just to see if its failing connection inside chip which can be fixed for a short period without even going 220c temperature. https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvvQ10hlgb0 Dont do this long and high temperature, you just need 100-150c to test this, if it works for next 50-100 boots then issue is surely this.
Complete fix would be replacing chip if this is the problem.

I see well the problem is that I dont have a multimeter and I dont have that thing to warm up the chip, only in my university , I'm studying electrics/electronic , but I'll surely will see what you told me