[afoord]

I bought a faulty laptop (ACER 1355LC) off ebay and found the problem to be the graphics card. I bought a new motherboard, ram and HDD for it and it ran fine the first few times then it started to boot with nothing on the screen... but if u turn it off then on it would start as normal.
Now the laptop doesnt boot at all. So i send the motherboard away for a replacement. I get it here set it all back up and it worked for the first few times then nothing again. Same problem.
I pulled the motherboard out of its enclosure with everything still attached and noticed when the power button is pressed the the Processor will make a series of ticking/clicking noises and then the laptop will die after one second.
I pulled the Processor out, fired it up and there was no ticking noise, the fans would spin and it would last about 5 seconds longer then it would reboot itself.

Is the motherboard stuffed or is it the CPU? I don't want to have to get another mobo...


Oh, and also, I asked our local computer man and he said it was most probably shorting out on something. but what?

[Jack Hackett]

I bought a faulty laptop off ebay and found the problem to be the graphics card. I bought a new motherboard, ram and HDD for it

What a waste of money

[Masta Squidge]

Originally Posted by Jack Hackett

What a waste of money

Nice helpful post

Not a waste of money if it was cheap, and makes for a functional laptop. Even a butt slow laptop is fine for general word, email, and internet usage.
Anyways, the processor shouldnt make any noise... it has no moving parts. Check other things, likely the hard drive has crapped out on you.

If something is shorting out that would cause an audible pop, that means there is some considerable voltage arcing somewhere, and you should be able to see that in the dark... however it would probably fry whatever its arcing to. could be a number of things.

[Jack Hackett]

It is a waste of money buying a laptop, no matter how cheap, and then having to buy replacement motherboard, CPU and RAM for it, may have just as well bought a working one in the first place.

[Spandexer]

Originally Posted by Jack Hackett

It is a waste of money buying a laptop, no matter how cheap, and then having to buy replacement motherboard, CPU and RAM for it, may have just as well bought a working one in the first place.

You're right from a practical, pragmatic viewpoint. But for others the challenge is the thing. Getting there is half the fun. And how much do they learn along the way? People who buy old Civics and fix them up for example, building them up for racing...they could easily BUY a fast car for the same money, but it doesn't bring them satisfaction. You guys just have two different approaches. Respect for other's views if you want respect back.