Hi
Have an Acer Aspire E1-510-2483. It started to have some trouble to boot sporadically, and now it won't boot anyway.
The sequence after I press power button is:
-power light starts
-fan starts
-cd clicks
-hdd light blinks
-hdd light stops
-fan stops
-power light stops
then again same procedure repeat once again
then nothing.
The screen is totally black, no light. No bios boot. Nothing
I've tried to pull out hdd, pull out RAM memory, same thing.
Pulled out battery. Power reset as Acer suggest. Have power cord plugged with no battery.
I've tried to flash bios. Downloaded latest bios from acer site. Put files unzipped on flahs drive (tried formatted as fat and then as fat32)
With no battery (and no hdd), pressed FN and ESC, then connected power cord, then pressed power button.
Fan starts full speed, hdd light starts, usb flash drive light (kingston with internal light) flashes twice... then nothing changes. Left it on for 30 min. Nothing. Fan full speed all the time.
Tried to unarchive every exe file and put all files on flash drive. Same thing.
Tried to put freedos on flash drive togehter with unzipped bios update (with unetbootin) but no change.
So, am asking if there is anything else to try?
Is this the correct way to update bios on a non-booting notebook? Or should I make the flash drive bootable? (the computer "starts" with FN+ESC, but still no boot even with hdd plugged in.
Found a lot of suggestion with ZGIA32.zip but cant find the file anywhere, nor any suggestion that has to do with this model (E1-510)
Any suggestion?
thanks a lot
/javier
PD: Acer support refused because warranty run out....