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stuffed laptop
well I have an old "acer extensa 501 " run very well for about 4 years until
one day it stopped I took it in for repairs they said mother board u.s. .So took it home put it in to storage and went out and got a new one( N.E.C versa P440 no usb2) .Now just for the fun of it want to try and get the old acer working. Here are the symptom went first died Start the computer and all I got was a flashing under score in the left hand corner. Tried 98 boot disk nothing happened . took ram out and put back in (flashing it ?) still nothing this is when I took it in for repairs Now first thing the battery for the mother board next to the cpu is missing . When started the flashing underscore is gone no screen at all except the indication lights.When caps lock or number is press these indication lights work and on start up the hard drive light lights up and the cd rom spins and two beep about a second apart then all quiet except for the fan/hard drive and on light Tried 98 boot disk again no good ,tried a Norton's antivirus boot cd rom to see if any thing happens Any idea's well come. Thanks for any help |
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