Notebooks & Netbooks

[MichaelV]

Until recently my Aspire M3802 desktop started immediately when the start button was pressed. For about a week it's been taking an increasing number of minutes before the the LED turns blue; today it was over ten. What is the likely problem? If accumulated dust how can I remove it? If not dust, what can I do?

[philetus]

I would disconnect the computer, take off the side cover, take it outside, take a can of air, and blow it out good.My desktop wouldn't boot and I would blow it out and it would be fine.How old is your HDD? As far as 10 min. to boot, I would try reseting the bios first.Carefully take out the battery on the M/B ,or if you have jumpers use them, for 30 sec. Download Crystal 

Diskinfo http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html CrystalDiskInfo is an easy-to-use, open-source program that can quickly display the S.M.A.R.T. status reported by your hard drive in Windows. If the HDD is good it's likely to be a windows problem.

[MichaelV]

I bought the computer in 2009. How do I take off the side cover? How do I reset the bios?

[philetus]

Go into Bios and load setup defaults  

Disconnect computer from power.

Facing the computer, remove the two screws from the back of the left side and slide cover back and remove.