Acer Aspire 7520 Failure

Not sure what the issue is with this laptop that was handed down to me,

It just doesnt even get to Bios Post.

Ive Tried:
* Removing Ram and Putting it back, Cleaned ram pins, tried one stick at a time
* Removing and reseating the Turion X2 CPU
* Cleaning it out (Wasnt that dusty anyways)
* Pushed the center of the Keyboard down incase its the CMOS Battery
* Removed and reinserted HDD and tried it without the HDD

Im buying a 2nd hand crap CPU for it to try and see if the CPU Itself Is Faulty

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Acer Aspire 7520 Fail
• Dead
• Faulty

[cultofmao]

Was given one with a broken screen got a screen 80 euros had tested it was working fine before installed screen just keeps red light starting fan goe then goes click and shuts down, tried heating the cpu with a hairdryer as someone suggested here and it started for a short while vista started installing something then it shut down again, pretty pissed off really, looks like i have a lot spare parts here including a brand new 17 inch screen from Acer, I hate my life :(

[TheSymbianFreak]

@cultofmao try baking the motherboard theres video's on youtube about it :) that might resurrect the machine for you

[BeerYouCash]

I had the same problem a few month ago. I sent the computer to service and they changed the chipset. It worked for 5 months and the same problem occurred. I think it is the fault of the design of the motherboard. I am going to write to Acer and demand the change since it is their fault.

[TheSymbianFreak]

@BeerYouCash it is, Acer use the very cheapest materials to make there machines.

Its funny to me that a Acer Aspire 7520 Couldnt last 2 years of medium use but my 8 Year old Dell Latitude D600 is still going strong xD

[cultofmao]

By the way got two other Acer laptops in my cupboard that were given to me both with broken screens seems to me odd all 3 Acer was in contact, someone here mentioned Dell and I agree had 2 C610 C640 and both were built very well particularly the charging socket, my boys DV5 Fujitsu was in the trash almost the day the warranty ran out, I have 4 Asus laptops one was in Russia then Finnish Alcoholic had it 5 years then my 5 year old 2, still works well, 3 others are good value for money.

[cultofmao]

Took of the fan and got what seems to be a complicated Copper thingy(Stop me if I am getting to technical) off it, and heated up the (Whatcha ma call it?) with a hairdryer about 5 or 6 mins, put it all together and pushed the button and after a couple attempts and removing the battery it finally started and has been going now and been restarted many times for about 24 hours, been checking and seems the boy playing "Minecraft" is a Magnet for Trojans and Toolbars, so attempting to sort that out.

[adeelnkhan]

My 7520 just died. Same symptoms. The laptop is only 2 yrs old. I am a fairly tech savvy guy but I got a serviced technician to look into this. The wiring on the mobo is gone and its to get the mobo replaced, it's almost the same amount of money, then what I paid for this 2 years ago. Never buying an Acer again. Don't buy an acer seriously. Their design is terrible. Thermal design in this case, they have a strip running towards the back of the fan for crying out loud.

[wargames43]

my solution what i did to mine pcik it up and trow it on the carbage stupit piece of shit it is cant fucking play minecraft with 10 fps on tiny

while a month ago i coudl play on far fucking rediculous

[coccoborg]

Yeah, to fix this you need to reflow the chipset and apply some good thermal compound to it, the thermal design of this notbook is horrible...

[nulledk]

Belive it or not.. i had the same problem with my mothers Acer, so i thought, it is dead anyway.. so i disassemblet it and put the motherboard in the pre-heated owen, 200 degrees celcius for 8 minutes.... Now it works :) been runing now for the last 12 hours without problems. Thanks to quintenoudenhoorn for sharing the information.

[MrPetersnor]

I had yesterday the same problem and I tried what what the next video on youtube shows :"Aspire 5520 - fixing the endless reboot failure". Heating the processor in the PC and it really works! I used the hairdryer of my wife. Greetings,Peter