Power light blinking blue on acer nitro 5 gaming laptop (PLEASE HELP)

DatRealUJ9
DatRealUJ9 Member Posts: 2 New User
in Nitro Gaming

Its been a few weeks since I booted up my laptop and I wanted to do something on it before I went to bed, but to my surprise the power light just flashed a few times and stopped, the screen didn't turn on or anything. I tried holding f2 and clicking it but nothing happened, and it only happens AFTER I release the button or click it if I hold it down it won't blink until I release it. What do I do?

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  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,773 Trailblazer
    edited January 2024
    https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/699757/power-light-blinking-blue-on-acer-nitro-5-gaming-laptop-please-help

    You don't press F2, where did you get F2 from? As usually F2 is to get into the bios for laptops😀to reset the battery press the power key and do this for the Nitro laptops like in the diagram below, if this doesn't start the boot process of your Nitro laptop, you need to do hard reset by taking the main battery out, disconnect the bios battery and shorts its +&- mainboard plug and take the ram out, leave the laptop like that overnight or for at least 1 hour so that the OE and bios chip resets and reconnect everything as your laptop should boot and be reset properly. With Nitro laptops its best not toleave them unused for long periods of time, you need to turn them on at least once a week. Hopr this helps.

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  • DatRealUJ9
    DatRealUJ9 Member Posts: 2 New User

    @StevenGen I'm new to all this computer stuff so can you give me a step by step on how to do this exactly?

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,773 Trailblazer
    https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1256862#Comment_1256862

    With the Nitro laptops you can try the Acer Battery Reset above, unplug the laptop from the adapter and afterwards press the power key for 10 seconds continuously, then leave it for 5 min and then press the power key and see if the laptop resets and powers on and reboots.

    If the reset above doesn't work then you need to do a Hard Reset, by undoing the back cover and taking the main battery out and then disconnect the RTC/BIOS battery and afterwards get a small metal flat screwdriver and short the +&- pins of the mainboards RTC/BIOS battery plug and take the ram out. If your Nitro laptop is a new model like 2-3 years old leave the laptop like that for 15min and reconnect, if its an older laptop then leave the laptop disconnected overnight, so that its EC and bios chips reset.

    If all the resets above don't make your laptop power on or boot then you have a shorted/burnt chip problem in the main power rail of your laptop of either a capacitor or a resistor that have shorted/burned out which can be fixed and changed easily, but if its a mosat then things could be allot more serious and more critical, as a mosat chip mostly protect the amount of voltage that is distributed to the cpu or gpu and if that shorts out then a cpu could have burned out and then you will need a new mainboard, while and if a gpu was burned out then you can still use the laptop with the cou graphics if that is ok with you. So be aware of the mosat shot problem as its very common on all gaming laptops. Good luck.

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