At first it would just take a few power cycles and then it would come back. Today I tried to restart it after Windows updates and it won't come back even after many hours of trying.
Symptoms are the lights come on, fans spin up, but nothing on the screen. Doesn't even show the Acer splash screen, can't get into BIOS. If you listen closely you can hear the fans power down after 20 seconds or so, then the smaller of the two fans (left side if you're looking down at the keyboard) will spin up and down over and over, I just hear a short little *whirrrr* sound then it spins down, then back up, etc... Don't know if that means anything, could just be the fan reacting to a tiny amount of heat from the vid card.
What I've done.
1. Did the power reset thing with the pin hole on the bottom. Nothing.
2. Popped the keyboard up and disconnected the battery entirely. No change.
First time I did this was a few months back, but after a couple tries it booted up. It doesn't get restarted very often, but it seemed like every time it took a bit longer to get it to boot. This time I don't think it's coming back. When it was running it ran great. Played games, it didn't run hot at all, no problems. I never had it crash while running, just this boot issue.
It's one of the early V17 Nitros, came with Windows 8.1 64 bit. I hadn't yet upgraded it to 10. My gut feeling is a bad BIOS. Or the Motherboard itself. But I'm posting here to see if there are any other suggestions, people who had the same issue, or whatever.
On a side note this will likely be my last Acer thanks to them telling me to "wait and see" after the initial call when it was in warranty, and now they refuse to do anything since it's now out of warranty. Thanks Acer, that's great.
