Swift 5 SF514-54T-77V6 Not Booting Up

Hi there,

I have tried everything I can find to power up my Swift 5 SF514-54T-77V6. I have long pressed both the power button and the battery reset. Then taken it to a computer tech and we ended up just unplugging the battery and using it with the power cord plugged in, this worked for a couple of weeks.

Now I plug the power cord in and I get the orange battery LED blinking slowly and no keyboard backlights at all.

I've done battery drains and tried re-connecting the battery to see if it changes anything.

I'm at a loss.

I had already contacted acer repairs for help but they told me they did not stock parts for laptops mor than 2 years old which seems ridiculous.

Any help would be appreciated.

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

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/682953/swift-5-not-booting-up

Laptops that have symptoms like yours could be from many sources, like a battery/power stage faults, a Super IO or BIOS chips that are frozen or corrupted or the RAM memory is faulty.

A simple fix usually is a Hard Reset that you need to disconnect the main battery, bios battery and take the ram out and then put everything back with only 1x ram module (if you have 2x modules installed) and alternating the ram to see if its faulty or using completely and different ram, to see if this fixes the laptop. I know that you have done the battery disconnection, but did the technician check the power/charging stages of your laptop if both are working 100%? As a laptop that only works with the adaptor plugged in and with no battery has problems within its charging/battery circuitry stages that either a capacitor or resistor is shorted or burned out.

Have a look at Electronic Computer School as Sorin who is a very experienced technician has allot of guides and fixes for super IO, BIOS chips and power and battery faults that he has fixed which are all good guides to what is wrong with your Swift 5 SF514-54T-77V6 laptop. Or you may need to replace the mobo.

These are all the Acer SG listed Swift 5 SF514-54 mobos, check the part numbers on your board and see and reference it to the below boards

Check the battery

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/682953/swift-5-not-booting-up

Maybe this will help you, it did the trick for me Aspire5 a515-4G Windows11 22H2 Home.

Once your Swift starts again (after resetting the battery etc.) don't shutdown use the sleep (F1 key) instead for a few days, then change your Power Plan to Balanced with Normal Shutdown, disable fast Startup and enable Hibernate so this will shows on the start power menu. Now instead of shutting down (at night or when not using your laptop) click on Hibernate in the power menu Start (Taskbar). This is almost the same function as Fast Startup but in my case it has not yet failed to start.😉

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