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I have an Acer - Aspire 5100 laptop. But, when I start it, the green light does go on, the fan starts for about 5secs, then nothing. The screen stays blank and the hard drive doesn’t do anything. Can you please help? Thanks, Frank
Have you tried a HARD RESET? unplug power, remove battery hold power button for 30 seconds, put everything back and see if it makes any difference, if not then also do all of the above but also take out RAM and put it all back together again. sometimes unseated RAM can cause a black / blank screen
Hoping you have fixed this by now, but if not, try this: Remove the battery. Remove the hard drive. Restart it and press the BIOS keys Control-Alt-Esc to see if you can enter the setup screen. If you can not enter the setup screen, and can not test the power supply output (be careful, voltmeter probes may short or damage the plug), it might be a good candidate for an iFiXiT teardown guide. Hope you can get it booting, it would make a good “netbook”, especially running an easy version of Linux like Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
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