Aspire 5552-5898 Trouble booting, and motherboard won't hold date

Hello Community,

I have a 4 year old Aspire 5552-5898 which is having issues that I have not yet seen addressed on this community. I am hoping some one here may have some insight.

The issue is actually two issue's, but I assume there may be one solution.

First issue is that the Laptop doesn't always boot. When this happens, the power button will light, the fan will spin, the HDD will start, but the screen stays black. Sometimes the PC will restart but the same thing will happen. Usually when this happens, if you hold down the power button, the laptop will power down, only to start up again. The only way to end this cycle is to unplug the machine and pull out the battery. Also of note this seems to happen 100% of the time if the machine is not plugged in, and about 50% of the time when it is.

The next issue occurs when the machine does actually boot. I HAVE to enter the bios because it never holds the date. I thought this could be a CMOS battery issue, but even after replacing that, the problem persists. After entering the date, and saving and exiting, the machine will boot into windows just fine.

Thank you for reading and commenting.