Truly Dead Aspire - Any way to save it?

[Kriton]

OK, I have never had this problem - after I got the dreaded black screen, no fan noise, start-up and click off problem - I have done everything - mashing the power button for 30 seconds, AC only, I have gotten the post screen a couple of times, got into bios - then that stopped working as well, after trying to boot up into safe mode in Win XP.

Finally I tried MACLES bios recovery, function/esc+power with a FAT formatted USB key, and 3309 bios, with the .fd name changed, the whole works. Followed the start-up to the letter, the power key started blinking then went solid green, the memory key stopped flashing - I let it sit for more that 5 minutes, and hit and held the power button and the machine *wouldn't* power down - the only way I could shut the thing off was to pull the battery and the AC from the machine.

NOW - I put the battery in and the battery light is red, I take the battery off, and hook up the AC and the battery light is red - power button doesn't work at all - am I now *totally* screwed? ANy suggestions, other than door stop?

I have made no mods, running XP Home, 1gb, 160gb.
Bruce

 

[adriana]

Mine just died too..tried logging in a the S/N on the Acer Customer Svc site and it would not acceopt the #. Customer Svc. is not open - sent an email...Not a good sign for a 3 month old computer.

 

[mdgo80]

I'm having the same issue with my Linpus, did you have the battery in your netbook when you did the flash of the Bios?

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Ok, i was looking at my battery dock, in the AAO and i saw something suspicious, there was a little piece of black plastic between the golden metal plug terminals of my AAO. Looking more close i saw that this little part was from my battery, someway this little metal cover of black plastic in my battery was broke and it twisted one of the golden metal plugs in my laptop. I manage to take out the little dark piece and straight again the metal plugs in the AAO. The metal cover of black plastic plug in my battery is still broke, but it's working again, it seems to me that this batteries are really really fragile in the get in get out movement, so be very careful.

 

[sgtslwilson]

I had a problem with mine going dead as well. The first two times flashing the bios worked. The last time the motherboard had to be replaced by ACER, which sucked cuz they deleted all my porno.