So I have an predator triton 500 PT515-52-70ZR and it is not booting up anymore. I did not use it for a while and I lost the charger so I bought a new one directly from acer using the compatibility search on the website. I charged the laptop and it booted up and worked just fine exept for the trackpad not working nor did it register in the system, but that turned out to be a loose ribbon cable. But to get to the ribbon cable I had to take the battery out and disconect it. Then it worked just fine for an entire evening. I then booted it down the usual way trough the windows meny and went to bed. Booted it back up the day after and it worked just fine until it randomly shut down while I was downloading a game. I had noticed that after fixing the trackpad it was some kind of click sound each time I plugged in the charger and when I booted the pc up but I plugged the charger in and out over the whole day about ten times until I plugged it in while I was downloading the game and it shut completely down after about 2 minutes.
So now over to the problem. I have searched up multiple discussions about similar problems and some that seem just like this, so I have tried using a pin and pressing the reset on the back for 30 seconds but each time it just gets a white light on the turbo button for a second then a white light for about 5 seconds and the fans turn slightly on before the pc shuts down. The charging indication lights up orange and the lightbulb symbol lights up blue until the pc shuts down.
i have to so far tried the reset as mentioned, tried plugging the battery and the CMOS battery then waiting a while before putting it together, but just gives the same result as the reset button.
i then decided to just open up the pc to look for a place where there cpuld be a short since thats what I think the clicking sound was since I remember the sound from when my psu on another stationary pc gave out and shorted. I took the pc apart and found some corroding and something looking like dirt on the side of the motherboard with the heatsink so I cleaned that up with isopropyl alcohol and also placed new thermal paste and cleaned the fans and heatsink of dust and hair. I then put the pc together again not missing any cables or screws. Sadly the pc still has the exact same issue so it does not seem to be the corroding as far as I can see.
I read that maybe the psu might have said goodnight in this situation?
The pc also gives no sign of life when the charger is not connected and only gives the lights and slight fan as mentioned before but no lights in the keyboard or the screen
I feel like it is most likely a short since the pc shuts down as the fans try to spin up on boot and that might be the threshold for when the short happens.
Might you guys be able to se what could be wrong? Feel free to ask more questions.
[Edited the thread to add model number to the title]