Predator Triton 500 SE won’t power on

Cheshire6

I got the triton 500 SE almost a year ago used from work and it was working greatly until about a month ago. When i try to turn it on, plugged in or not, the power light turns on, keyboard does its boot sequence, then it stops, and repeats. at first it would do that a few times then turn on no issue but now it just keeps doing that. I’ve tried making sure the battery was fully charged, disconnecting it and the cmos and draining it. It will just keep doing this little cycle until I press the power button long enough to turn it off, and i’ve tried letting it do the cycle for over an hour to see if it just needed to fight. I’m at such a loss with this.

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/718345/predator-triton-500-se-won-t-power-on

I suggest that you first do the Win-11 “Startup Repair” in the Win-11 Advanced options. If that doesn’t fix your boot problem then do a Hard Reset of the laptop which you need to do the following:

Open the back cover and take the battery out and disconnect the bios battery and shorts its + & - pins at the mainboard plug so it resets CMOS, then take the ram out and leave the laptop like that for 15 min so that its EC chip and chipset chip resets properly. Afterwards reconnect everything but with the ram and if you have 2x ram modules, only connect one and alternate the ram to see if its not the actual ram that is causing this problem, as doing the hard reset should fix a problematic frozen stuck laptop like you are experiencing.

If this does not fix the laptop then you need to take the laptop to an experienced technician so that he can diagnose the main power rail as it could have a mosfet or a capacitor that has shorted the main power rail and is stopping the laptop from booting, or at worse it could be a shorted mosfet that protects/filters the gpu from a high voltage going to the gpu, which could have shorted and fried the gpu of the laptop, which is common on gaming laptops, and all that a technician can do is to disable the NVidia gpu so you can use the laptops graphics but with the integrated graphics of the cpu only or you can change the mainboard which in a Triton 500s model could cost upwards of USD $1500. Good luck and hope this gives you a guide of what to do.

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