Acer Aspire 7551G powers on but will not boot

jack63ss
jack63ss Member Posts: 5 New User
edited October 2023 in 2020 Archives
I was given a 7551G to attempt to fix for my daughter:
Acer Aspire 7551G-5821 laptop, Series 7551G, Model MS2310, SNID: XXXXXX, S/N: LXPXF020490XXXXXXXXXX.

On AC power it will power on (the blue power light and blue power button both turn on), the fan runs and if you put a bootable CD in the drive it will spin it up, but that is all. Nothing on the screen, the HDD light never blinks and I don't hear it spin up. I have seen a lot of "fried motherboard" responses to these symptoms, but the fact it tries to spin up the CD makes it appear that is not the problem. For example, I have seen bad memory do weird things. My daughter told me she tried a number of different things before she asked me to look at it (she is fairly knowledgeable), so it IS possible it is the motherboard, but I am looking for a 2nd opinion before I start ripping it apart.

Ideas, Suggestions ?
Thanks

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Acer-Samuel

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  • JohnnyBravoz
    JohnnyBravoz Member Posts: 11

    Tinkerer
    I think I had the same problem.
    I once fixed it by doing this:
    (I didn't know how to do the A: drive thing so I just changed the drive letter of my USB flash drive to A: instead of editing the .bat file).
    It revived the laptop but the BIOS probably corrupted again after putting it in sleep mode.
    I think maybe sleep and hibernation somehow corrupt the BIOS, just a theory.

    So now I'm back to square one and the fix doesn't seem to work a second time. Strange.
















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