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Hi I have an Acer "travelmate 270" . Bought it second hand, was working perfectly, then one day for no apparant reason, when I turned it on, I just got a blank screen. The power lead light is on, and it checks the dvd player, then the fan stops and we go no further. I tried re seating the ram, and then it started with a lot of beeping, so I put a Knoppix start up CD in the drive and booted it from that and it was OK till I turned it off. When I turn it on again I go throgh that whole process again.
Any ideas as to my problem?
Any ideas as to my problem?
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Originally Posted by anndroid
Hi I have an Acer "travelmate 270" . Bought it second hand, was working perfectly, then one day for no apparant reason, when I turned it on, I just got a blank screen. The power lead light is on, and it checks the dvd player, then the fan stops and we go no further. I tried re seating the ram, and then it started with a lot of beeping, so I put a Knoppix start up CD in the drive and booted it from that and it was OK till I turned it off. When I turn it on again I go throgh that whole process again.
Any ideas as to my problem?
-Ben
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Originally Posted by aussben
Did you end up fixing your laptop? I have a travelmate 290 that does the exactly the same thing.
-Ben
yes I fixed it thanks. I had caused the ram to malfunction, by continually letting my battery power run too low. You need to take out the ram then put it back and start up using AC power. Use a start up disc if you have to, to get it to boot up. Then use the computer only on the AC for a couple of times. Turn off when you are using battery power and it starts to run low, as this is what caused my problem. Now my acer 270 is working perfectly (maybe I should touch wood after saying that)
Anyhow, it was definately a ram problem, you may need a new ram if its still faulty.
Good luck
anndroid.
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Originally Posted by anndroid
Hi Ben,
yes I fixed it thanks. I had caused the ram to malfunction, by continually letting my battery power run too low. You need to take out the ram then put it back and start up using AC power. Use a start up disc if you have to, to get it to boot up. Then use the computer only on the AC for a couple of times. Turn off when you are using battery power and it starts to run low, as this is what caused my problem. Now my acer 270 is working perfectly (maybe I should touch wood after saying that)
Anyhow, it was definately a ram problem, you may need a new ram if its still faulty.
Good luck
anndroid.
Thanks for your reply, letting the battery go flat is what cause my acer to stop working. I will try what you suggested tonight.
Thanks again.
-Ben
i have a similar problem on two of my travelmate 290's ... white screen, no boot. Try starting with A/C Power, but that only works sometimes.
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yo,
i have an acer aspire 1691WLMi... i have practaly the same problem. i press the on button, power light comes on... but just a blank screen, no bios... should i try taking out the ram!
PS, it has vista home premium installed.... if that makes a difference!
thanks John
fredricksonj@comcast.net
i have an acer aspire 1691WLMi... i have practaly the same problem. i press the on button, power light comes on... but just a blank screen, no bios... should i try taking out the ram!
PS, it has vista home premium installed.... if that makes a difference!
thanks John
fredricksonj@comcast.net
I have a HP Pavilion dv2000 (CTO?) that has the same problem. It died while I was backing up some filming that I had done, and now it shows up as a black screen. The hard drive is going, the fan is running, but it doesn't do anything else. But I always run on AC.
(I had HP repair it while it was under warrenty, but I desperately needed to use it for schoolwork (I missed about two weeks or so of schoolwork while it was being repaired). And it was at the end of the warrenty anyhow. (They repaired the wrong thing the first time, so I had to send it back and by the time it got back the second time...). In short, HP sent it back without the ability to use a battery).
But anyhow, is the ram the only thing that I can try? Or are there other solutions? I've noticed that it fixes itself after a week, but I am right up against a deadline for a project that is due by tomorrow at the latest and thus I don't have the time for it to fix itself.
Oh, and it also "starts up" (the power goes on, HDD moves, fan moves, DVD drive moves) when I plug it in while it is having the problem.
So far, the things that I have tested from my previous times (and have not worked). I have tried a few of them this time.:
1) complete unplug and holding power button for 30 seconds then retry.
2) removing and replacing the HDD.
3) New power supply
4) Different power source
5) Placing the battery in (this was way before: we got the smell of burnt plastic so I ejected (literally) the battery)
6) spamming the F10 buttons and such. No beeps, no sound but for the natural tapping sound from the button itself.
7) forced turn off and then turning back on.
8) oh yes, and I did try an external monitor.
9) unplugging everything and testing every combination of the connected devices including no connected devices and all connected devices.
(I had HP repair it while it was under warrenty, but I desperately needed to use it for schoolwork (I missed about two weeks or so of schoolwork while it was being repaired). And it was at the end of the warrenty anyhow. (They repaired the wrong thing the first time, so I had to send it back and by the time it got back the second time...). In short, HP sent it back without the ability to use a battery).
But anyhow, is the ram the only thing that I can try? Or are there other solutions? I've noticed that it fixes itself after a week, but I am right up against a deadline for a project that is due by tomorrow at the latest and thus I don't have the time for it to fix itself.
Oh, and it also "starts up" (the power goes on, HDD moves, fan moves, DVD drive moves) when I plug it in while it is having the problem.
So far, the things that I have tested from my previous times (and have not worked). I have tried a few of them this time.:
1) complete unplug and holding power button for 30 seconds then retry.
2) removing and replacing the HDD.
3) New power supply
4) Different power source
5) Placing the battery in (this was way before: we got the smell of burnt plastic so I ejected (literally) the battery)
6) spamming the F10 buttons and such. No beeps, no sound but for the natural tapping sound from the button itself.
7) forced turn off and then turning back on.
8) oh yes, and I did try an external monitor.
9) unplugging everything and testing every combination of the connected devices including no connected devices and all connected devices.
Last edited by sin silifi; Nov 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm. Reason: more information.
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Originally Posted by anndroid 
Hi Ben,
yes I fixed it thanks. I had caused the ram to malfunction, by continually letting my battery power run too low. You need to take out the ram then put it back and start up using AC power. Use a start up disc if you have to, to get it to boot up. Then use the computer only on the AC for a couple of times. Turn off when you are using battery power and it starts to run low, as this is what caused my problem. Now my acer 270 is working perfectly (maybe I should touch wood after saying that)
Anyhow, it was definately a ram problem, you may need a new ram if its still faulty.
Good luck
anndroid.
tx b4
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#10 8 Days Ago
I just had a similar problem with my Acer travelmate. The screen was blank when I turned it on. I reset the ram, then it worked. I'm so glad I came across this thread. Thank you.
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