Acer Aspire 7 A715-71G. Not starting up.
Evening all,
I have an Acer Aspire 7 A715-71G which recently stopped working. When pressing the power button the blue led light comes on for 5 seconds, but nothing else. No screen activity, no fans and no keyboard backlight. When the charging cable is plugged in the orange led lights up and seems to be charging.
I tried all the simple solutions myself, the battery reset button and holding down the power button for 1 minute etc. I then took it to a local repair shop as it is out of warranty by 3 weeks, who diagnosed the issue as an "reversed IC" likely caused by a power surge and informed me that it would be likely be economically unrepairable. Annoyed but accepting of its fate I took it home.
This is where the story gets a little interesting. A week after the laptop first would not turn on, my daughter opened it up and pressed the power button and it booted up, connected to the internet and worked perfectly fine, keyboard backlight, fans, everything was as usual. I shut it down after a while and went to work. 8 hours later, upon getting back from work I went to boot it up again and the laptop reverted back to the original issue.
So my question is, would a reversed IC mean that the laptop could not boot up? In which case the diagnosis must be wrong and secondly what could the problem be if the first prognosis was not the cause of the problems?
I am not too technically minded so apologies if I have missed any vital information.
Many thanks.
