Laptop won't boot, fan is on and hard disc spins

[Jim Grant]

Acer aspire 5536. Recently had intermittant trouble booting up, now problem is constant. When powering up, fan comes on and HDD spins in pre-boot mode then stops (however, sound like it is still spinning), screen remains blank. HDD only weeks old and works fine on daughters Acer laptop. Any suggestions? Cheers.

 

[Kursun]

Do you get anything at all at the display, like BIOS screen?

 

[Mamatis]

Hallo Jim.

Try to make your laptop a hard reset.
You should find info about this at your providers web page or at your laptops manual.
Generally the reset is to :
Disconnect the battery
unplug from ac voltage
and keep pressing the start baton for 15 sec.
Thats what hp do, acer must have it too
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01684768&cc=gr&dlc=en&lc=en