Hi,
My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
then nothing.

How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?

Undoing screws on back at moment.

Thanks for any help..
 Norm

Norm wrote:
> Hi,
> My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
> then nothing.
> 
> How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
> replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?
> 
> Undoing screws on back at moment.
> 
> Thanks for any help..
>  Norm

Once you get to the CMOS, how are you going to repair it? AFAIK, you 
have to unsolder it and place it in a reprogrammer (do you have one of 
those?) and a copy of a good BIOS. That is if it is good to began with. 
Personally that would be the last thing I would check. I would check it 
out something like this:

1) Try just on battery
2) Try just on AC
3) Remove the HD, then try
4) Remove the CD/DVD drive, then try
5) Remove built in WiFi, then try
6) Swap memory, then try

-- 
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:36:07 -0500, BillW50  wrote:

>Norm wrote:
>> Hi,
>> My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
>> then nothing.
>> 
>> How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
>> replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?
>> 
>> Undoing screws on back at moment.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help..
>>  Norm
>
>Once you get to the CMOS, how are you going to repair it? AFAIK, you 
>have to unsolder it and place it in a reprogrammer (do you have one of 
>those?) and a copy of a good BIOS. That is if it is good to began with. 
>Personally that would be the last thing I would check. I would check it 
>out something like this:
>
>1) Try just on battery
>2) Try just on AC
>3) Remove the HD, then try
>4) Remove the CD/DVD drive, then try
>5) Remove built in WiFi, then try
>6) Swap memory, then try
>
>-- 
>Bill
>Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
>MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
>Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)
>Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

I meant the CMOS battery!
Not soldered is it?
Norm

Norm wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:36:07 -0500, BillW50  wrote:
> 
>> Norm wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
>>> then nothing.
>>>
>>> How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
>>> replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?
>>>
>>> Undoing screws on back at moment.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help..
>>>  Norm
>> Once you get to the CMOS, how are you going to repair it? AFAIK, you 
>> have to unsolder it and place it in a reprogrammer (do you have one of 
>> those?) and a copy of a good BIOS. That is if it is good to began with. 
>> Personally that would be the last thing I would check. I would check it 
>> out something like this:
>>
>> 1) Try just on battery
>> 2) Try just on AC
>> 3) Remove the HD, then try
>> 4) Remove the CD/DVD drive, then try
>> 5) Remove built in WiFi, then try
>> 6) Swap memory, then try
> 
> I meant the CMOS battery!
> Not soldered is it?
> Norm

Oh sometimes it is. Although it could have a plug too. :)

-- 
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:08:11 GMT, donotreply@invalid.invalid (Norm)
sharpened a new quill and scratched:

>Hi,
>My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
>then nothing.
>
>How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
>replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?
>
>Undoing screws on back at moment.
>
>Thanks for any help..
> Norm

Oddly enough I recently had to do a system restore and mine (Extensa
5220) refused to reboot, just sat there all lights on fan whirring now
and again. Phoned the helpline, was told someone would call back,
hours later with no call I just pressed the button, waited a few
minutes and restarted. All worked well and system restore had worked.

My old laptop used to do the same and only removing all perephials and
powering up on battery alone worked.

Have you made an emergency start disk?

Kay

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"Norm" <donotreply@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
news:48adcab2.13363156@news.zetnet.co.uk...
> Hi,
> My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
> then nothing.
>
> How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
> replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?
>
> Undoing screws on back at moment.
>
> Thanks for any help..
> Norm

repalcing the CMOS battery ain't gonna make it boot the CMOS battery only is 
there to store the basic stuff like date and time etc, if it was the battery 
it would stuill boot and just tell you the time and date was wrong

In news:5Cisk.30122$AE1.10223@newsfe28.ams2,
Fixer  typed:
> "Norm" <donotreply@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:48adcab2.13363156@news.zetnet.co.uk...
>> Hi,
>> My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
>> then nothing.
>>
>> How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
>> replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?
>>
>> Undoing screws on back at moment.
>>
>> Thanks for any help..
>> Norm
>
> repalcing the CMOS battery ain't gonna make it boot the CMOS battery
> only is there to store the basic stuff like date and time etc, if it
> was the battery it would stuill boot and just tell you the time and
> date was wrong

There are reports that a very few models that will not boot if the CMOS 
battery is dead. Rumor is the only reason why some are programmed this way 
is to give the service people some business. :-(

-- 
Bill
Black Asus EEE PC 4GB 2GB SoDIMM Adata 16GB
Windows XP SP2 and Xandros Linux

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:08:11 GMT, donotreply@invalid.invalid (Norm)
wrote:

>Hi,
>My Acer aspire 1355  wont boot,  power lights show, dvd whirrs once
>then nothing.
>
>How do I open up this beast, Thought I would attempt repair by 1st
>replacing CMOS - but how do I get at it?
>
>Undoing screws on back at moment.
>
>Thanks for any help..
> Norm

Thanks for all replies.

It has done this before but with fan rotating continuously. Left it
for a while and rebooted fine, but this time it didnt.
Have tried, with fully charged battery, with
out battery -on mains, with all  USB removed, with wireless card
removed.

Wondered about CMOS battery failure because my old miditower had
similar problems and originally thought it was power switch until I
learnt a bit about CMOS battery problems. New CMOS cured it this

Laptop in bits now but cant find any thing that looks like a CMOS
battery ????????? Anone help here?

Got the HD drive out and hope to get a few important files but have to
buy a 2.5 to 3.5 ATA adaptor.

ACER do provide what appears like a restore CD.

Norm

In news:48b29bfe.5682953@news.zetnet.co.uk,
Norm typed on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:04:19 GMT:
> Thanks for all replies.
>
> It has done this before but with fan rotating continuously. Left it
> for a while and rebooted fine, but this time it didnt.
> Have tried, with fully charged battery, with
> out battery -on mains, with all  USB removed, with wireless card
> removed.
>
> Wondered about CMOS battery failure because my old miditower had
> similar problems and originally thought it was power switch until I
> learnt a bit about CMOS battery problems. New CMOS cured it this
>
> Laptop in bits now but cant find any thing that looks like a CMOS
> battery ????????? Anone help here?
>
> Got the HD drive out and hope to get a few important files but have to
> buy a 2.5 to 3.5 ATA adaptor.
>
> ACER do provide what appears like a restore CD.
>
> Norm

Well CMOS batteries  in laptops typically looks like this:

http://www.asources.com/gallery2/d/1155-3/DSCF0455.JPG

Yes a 2.5 to 3.5 ATA adapter is nice to have. Although that is only good on 
a desktop. Why not get a 2.5 ATA USB adapter? Then you can use it on 
desktops and laptops.

-- 
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)