My elderly aspire one D150 is, alas, no longer working (screen dead, not posting either by the sound of it). I’ve swapped out the ram, checked the battery and charger.
It powers on, no screen activity. The fan is definitely firing up, but it’s clearly stopping after 2 seconds, the device does remain on. Key presses yield no additional response.
I did try using an external monitor via the dvi port, but no dice (checking if the monitor is dead).
Any thoughts on fixes, or do I have a new paperweight?
I once had an Acer A150 netbook, sort of a smaller screen slightly shittier cousin to your model. Mine gave me similar problems a couple times, turned out that apparently humidity would slowly work its way from my fingers through holes between the keys on the keyboard and eventually get down around the edges of the chipset.
I had never actually spilled anything on it, it genuinely was just accumulated humidity from my fingers and probably the humid Mississippi air here. Anyways, when mine would quit working and I noticed the subtle signs of corrosion around the edges of the chipset, I’d clean the edges with a toothbrush and rubbing alcohol.
It would start working just fine again, for like another year or so when I’d have to clean it again. No idea if yours is prone to the same issue, but it can’t hurt to pop the keyboard out and have a look around for any traces of crud or corrosion…
Pull the laptop battery, then find and detach the CMOS battery for awhile. Put them back in and try it again.
Not a bad idea, might take a bit of getting to, but that might work. Will try that after checking fit corrosion!
Wil give that a go, did pop the keyboard out to check if it was a ribbon issue but will pop it again and see if I spot corrosion.
Thanks for the idea!
I’m not sure about your model or whether you might need to open the full shell case of the laptop to fully inspect yours, but yeah it’s definitely worth checking. Good luck, lemmy know how it goes…