Acer Nitro V AN515-56-58EE will not turn on and no charging light

hotandtoasty
hotandtoasty Member Posts: 2 New User

Hello, my AN515-56-58EE will not turn on and no light appears when I plug it in. My laptop was working just fine last night, after which I shut it down and went to bed, this morning I tried to turn it on and discovered it does not turn on and does not have the charging light when plugged in. Overnight it was left on charge.
I have tried some advice online, such as holding down the power button for 30 seconds, holding down the power button for 30 seconds and then plugging it in while holding the power button for another 30 seconds, unplugging the battery and holding the power button for 30 seconds and holding the power for 30 seconds but at a different wall outlet.

Please help.

Answers

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 13,692 Trailblazer
    edited March 29

    This symptom in the AN515-56 laptops is usually from the EC or Chipset chips that get frozen and need to be reset with a hard reset, NOT pressing the power key or anything else.

    Hard Reset - Remove the eleven (11) screws securing the lower case to the upper case of the AN515-56 laptop, starting from the upper side, pry to release the upper side latches, continue releasing the remaining latches. Then remove the lower case.

    Disconnect the main battery cable from the mainboard and take the main battery out. then disconnect the RTC/BIOS battery and then short the batteries mobo plug + & - pins (as shown circled below) to reset CMOS.

    Leave the laptop like that for at least 15 min and then reconnect everything, if you have 2x ram modules, only connect 1x ram module and alternate the two ram modules and see if its not the ram that is faulty, as the laptop should turn on and boot properly. I know this as I've used this laptop for many years and that happened to me also and this Hard Reset fixed the boot issue, if it doesn't then your laptop has a main power rail blown mosfet or a capacitor that needs to be pinpointed and changed. at worst, which is rare, the gpu might be fried, so take your laptop to a tech if the hard reset doesn't work.

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  • hotandtoasty
    hotandtoasty Member Posts: 2 New User

    Question, how would I "short the batteries mobo plug"?