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Solved: larry133 laptop 5420

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  1. larry133

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    I have a acer extenas 5420 and it will not power up. I push the power button and it comes on but gos out. I have tryed to remove the battery and power supply, then hold down the power butten. then installing battery and power supply ( did not work ).all i did was install windows 7 and all drives; it worked fine for a few days but i truned it off and this happen when i turned it on. also i can hear the hard drive start and the cooling fan come on, but the light gos out.
     
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    I am NOT quite certain what this means would you please explain
    I think I am right in saying that the laptop orignally came with Vista or XP but not with 7.
    How have you installed 7 please
    From where did you obtain 7 and in respect of
    power led or HDD led please

    will it boot to the 7 DVD
     
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    The unit came with vista and i installed windows 7. the operating system is oem and purchased at compusa.
    I installed as the the instruction indicated, also formatted hard drive with windows system.i had to install lan driver and also i up-dated the video and graphic drives. It will not even boot to the bios screen,when you push the power button the light comes on and gos out; in about 10 seconds the light comes back on and then gos out. that is want happens, did you get the attachment
     
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    what attachment?


    and I presume drives means drivers eg the lan and video.

    If you cannot get a boot to BIOS or to the Windows 7 DVD it is unlikely that the problem can be solved by way of help on an online forum.

    The evidence tends to suggest a power circuit or regretfully a motherboard or processor fault
    If the latop is one on which the hard drive can be easily removed from either the hard drive caddy on a slide out drawer or from a panel on the base, I would try that and see if it posts without the hard drive in.

    It is a long shot and I do not hold out a lot of hope
    When you installed windows 7 did you then enter BIOS and make any changes there.
    If so that may be the cause if it was never rebooted until the failure after the changes.

    I wish you the best of luck.
     
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    thank you for your time; i also think it is the motherboard.
     
    larry133, Dec 26, 2012
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