Aspire 5 514-54 only turns on after I press battery reset. Every time. Any ideas ?

Jay_banana1

Aspire 5 only turns on after I press battery reset. Started off occasionally now it’s more often than not

Ideal is aspire 5 514-54

No upgrades

I3 cou , 4 gig ram. Using only m.2 SSD

Windows 19.

I’ve been all over you tube and most videos are no power with blown mosfets. but this has power. Just won’t post unless I battery reset.
any ideas ?

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title]

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/686891/aspire-5-only-turns-on-after-i-press-battery-reset-every-time-any-ideas

Is your laptop 5 years old and have you replaced the battery since purchase? Either the battery has dead cells, your adapter is bad, or you have a motherboard/PSU/power button issue and a power drain/reset seems to temporary fix it. If you believe that the battery and adapter are still good, what may help, and you can boot to windows is don't completely shut down but hibernate instead (sleep for short periods). To invoke the hibernate option in Windows you navigate to "Change what closing the lid does" (type that in the Search box) and click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable" uncheck Fast Startup and check Hibernate. Hibernate a few weeks, it consumes almost no power and is the same as a complete shutdown. Then you can try to shut down again and hopefully the problem has gone away.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/686891/aspire-5-only-turns-on-after-i-press-battery-reset-every-time-any-ideas

Is your laptop 5 years old and have you replaced the battery since purchase? Either the battery has dead cells, your adapter is bad, or you have a motherboard/PSU/power button issue and a power drain/reset seems to temporary fix it. If you believe that the battery and adapter are still good, what may help, and you can boot to windows is don't completely shut down but hibernate instead (sleep for short periods). To invoke the hibernate option in Windows you navigate to "Change what closing the lid does" (type that in the Search box) and click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable" uncheck Fast Startup and check Hibernate. Hibernate a few weeks, it consumes almost no power and is the same as a complete shutdown. Then you can try to shut down again and hopefully the problem has gone away.

Jay_banana1

Thank for the help.

The laptop is 3 years old, it’s taken very little abuse, using hwinfo it says the battery has had 32 cycles (so not many) and has 86% health, lasts about 2 hours sometimes longer depending on usage.

Charger is spot on ( checked with multimeter) I’ve disabled fast boot but I’ll do the hibernation now I’d not thought of that thank you

I was thinking hardware more than software but I’ll take anything to keep it going as it’s a cracking little laptop

thank you

Jay_banana1

genius. Works a treat. Thank you. 👍