Aspire M5-581t(g) powers on and off very slowly
The laptop runs very well after it finally gets loaded, and I love it, frankly. Powering it up and powering it down takes a looooooong time, however. Like 10 minutes or so. I've replaced the fan twice now, and over the life of the laptop have lost functionality on several of the keys on the keyboard, so I use a wireless USB keyboard and mouse. I suspect that may be a damaged ribbon connector or whatever it's called, that connects the keyboard to the mainboard, but I'm no expert. The keys that don't function are grouped sort of. Also, this laptop was not on the list of those Acer laptops that were supported for Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 8 original OS, for some reason it was excluded. Would love to know the reason for that. During the life of the laptop I've gotten the "Driver_power_state_failure" error rarely, and what seem to be video driver crashes, although again, I'm no expert. Device Manager always shows everything working fine.
Anyway, all that being said, as the second fan was getting worse and worse, the laptop finally shut off by itself one day. Since that time, it's had the lengthy power up and down issue. I've reset it twice, it's basically bare at the moment. I've installed the third fan, run maintenance, checked drivers, reset Windows 10, etc. It appears the only startup processes that run other than Windows processes are for the ELAN touchpad and two Intel processes, one for the HD 4000 I believe, and can't recall what the other was.
As I said, once it hits the log-in screen, I'm off and running, normal speeds, all is well until I try to power down, then it takes forever again. During power up, the laptop takes forever on the Acer screen, with the little turning wheel, right before the Windows log-in screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and consideration.
