Joe1888 672 Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) am looking at a acer 5532 laptop for someone,i suspect it has a fried motherboard/gpu.. i believe the owner put the laptop to sleep then went to resume and it wouldnt work i dont have a battery here for it so just using the power cable. when try turn it on, light at the front and on button lights up and can hear the fan etc spin but thats it.. the screen stays black and nothing else happens, it does turn off when hold the power button things ive tryed so far: holding the power button for 60 secs to drain cmos battery reseating/cleaning memory sticks connecting laptop to moniter to rule out the screen for now am running out of ideas, is there much point cleaning the cpu and adding new thermal paste? any helps appreciated, cheers Edited January 18, 2015 by Joe1888 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobcullen79 1,495 Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 am looking at a acer 5532 laptop for someone,i suspect it has a fried motherboard/gpu.. i believe the owner put the laptop to sleep then went to resume and it wouldnt work i dont have a battery here for it so just using the power cable. when try turn it on, light at the front and on button lights up and can hear the fan etc spin but thats it.. the screen stays black and nothing else happens, it does turn off when hold the power button things ive tryed so far: holding the power button for 60 secs to drain cmos battery reseating/cleaning memory sticks connecting laptop to moniter to rule out the screen for now am running out of ideas, is there much point cleaning the cpu and adding new thermal paste? any helps appreciated, cheers I just had a similar problem, all down to the battery not holding a charge. As soon as the power supply was disconnected, it died straight away. Causing system failure. Then, the last time it disconnected it wouldnt turn on properly. same as you described, black screen, fans going.. It had corrupted its operating system and wasnt picking up one. the repair disc sorted it out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joe1888 672 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 am looking at a acer 5532 laptop for someone,i suspect it has a fried motherboard/gpu.. i believe the owner put the laptop to sleep then went to resume and it wouldnt work i dont have a battery here for it so just using the power cable. when try turn it on, light at the front and on button lights up and can hear the fan etc spin but thats it.. the screen stays black and nothing else happens, it does turn off when hold the power button things ive tryed so far: holding the power button for 60 secs to drain cmos battery reseating/cleaning memory sticks connecting laptop to moniter to rule out the screen for now am running out of ideas, is there much point cleaning the cpu and adding new thermal paste? any helps appreciated, cheers I just had a similar problem, all down to the battery not holding a charge. As soon as the power supply was disconnected, it died straight away. Causing system failure. Then, the last time it disconnected it wouldnt turn on properly. same as you described, black screen, fans going.. It had corrupted its operating system and wasnt picking up one. the repair disc sorted it out. this isnt a os fault mate, it would still show some options on start up if it was? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobcullen79 1,495 Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 I only got an error message twice( I`d tried restarting just incase), then that was it, all went black and unresponsive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joe1888 672 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 tryed a win 7 cd ive got, didnt do anything, cd drive is reading the cd though. there a slight flash in screen for a second when it first trys to boot up, connected it to a moniter again, just incase. didnt help Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobcullen79 1,495 Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Feck knows bud. They sure can be fickle things at times. Hopefully Flipper Al might swing by the thread later.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joe1888 672 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) got bored just striped the laptop and removed the mobo.. there was a big chunk of dust blocking the air flow to the gp/cpu. removed the heatsink, the thermal pad for the gpu is fine, doesnt seem like there was enough for the cpu edit: thoughts? Edited January 18, 2015 by Joe1888 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flipper_Al 1,012 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 That paste is fine, you only need a very thin layer Before you stripped it down, did I beep at all when you powered it on.....? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 fcuked graphics board would be my guess. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joe1888 672 Posted January 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 That paste is fine, you only need a very thin layer Before you stripped it down, did I beep at all when you powered it on.....? No beep mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flipper_Al 1,012 Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) I have had cooked laptops that still beep at BIOS level, when powered on Have you put it all back together.....any change....? Looking at what you have tried/done I would whip out the H/D, imaging it on another machine, and bin the rest Edited January 19, 2015 by Flipper_Al Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joe1888 672 Posted January 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 I have had cooked laptops that still beep at BIOS level, when powered on Have you put it all back together.....any change....? Looking at what you have tried/done I would whip out the H/D, imaging it on another machine, and bin the rest I havnt yet, got nothing good enough in the house to clean off the old thermal paste, still got some artic silver kicking about. Cheers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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