I have an ACER travelmate 3260 .And my problem begun while my laptop was on in battery mode then after quite sometime when I connect it to my laptop adapter to charge it It shutdowthing prematurely and there it is no power at all .Total blackout and cannot power on the sytem. Even in battery mode. It tried to test my adaptor to my other acer laptop and its working. BTW my laptop battery is brand new. And one thing I’ve noticed is that my adaptor led is blinking while connected to my dead laptop. IS it possible that the power board is the culprit?. Or is it something else?

I have an Acer Travelmate 2423 laptop and I have been having issues with the it since last year after I discharged my battery completely. It does not recongnize that the power adaptor is plugged-in and starts on the battery mode. It starts beeping continuously (power led stays green and battery led stays orange but keeps on and off) until the battery is fully charged. The beep is so disturbing that you can’t even hear any other audio sounds that are playing. During the initial few mins (30-60mins), the power scheme keeps switching between power to battery mode all the time causing the system to slow down. At least after 30 mins, the system stabilizes with the power mode recognizing the adapter connection.

It’s hard to tell what is wrong without troubleshooting the laptop. I’m thinking maybe it’s related to the DC jack. It’s possible the DC jack has to be replaced or resoldered, maybe it’s not making good contact with the motherboard.

I have an Acer Travelmate 2423 laptop and I have been having issues with the it since last year after I discharged my battery completely. It does not recongnize that the power adaptor is plugged-in and starts on the battery mode. It starts beeping continuously (power led stays green and battery led stays orange but keeps on and off) until the battery is fully charged. The beep is so disturbing that you can’t even hear any other audio sounds that are playing. During the initial few mins (30-60mins), the power scheme keeps switching between power to battery mode all the time causing the system to slow down. At least after 30 mins, the system stabilizes with the power mode recognizing the adapter connection.

Recently, all of a sudden, battery started showing completely empty and the computer won’t start at all. Whenever I press power on, a message comes up “your battery is critical low” and shuts off. I left the adapter plugged in for about 5-6 days and noticed that the battery’s led turned green. I tried starting it up again and it did. But, it won’t recognize that adapter is plugged in and it stayed in the battery mode for about 20-30 mins and then went off due to low battery.

I have no idea why this happens. Is it because of bad adapter or bad battery or bad power board or bad hardware driver?

Please help me out with this.

I look forward to your answer.

Thanks in advance.

I plan to remove the whole LCD part from the laptop, and so the board will still remain. Then, I will use monitor to replace it as a screen. My question is, is it possible to do?

Yes, it’s possible. I have a laptop like that at home and using it with my TV. I’m using this laptop for watching videos, online movies, netflix, etc…
Here’s the catch.
The internal wireless card antenna cables running inside the display assembly. It means, when you remove the display you have to disconnect Wi-Fi antenna cables from the internal card. The internal card will not work without antenna cables. In this case you’ll have to use an external USB or PCMCIA wireless card.

I have Acer TraveMate 4100, and it’s kind a likely with the model in this review. The LCD suffers dead pixels (in line). I plan to remove the whole LCD part from the laptop, and so the board will still remain. Then, I will use monitor to replace it as a screen. My question is, is it possible to do?

Thanks. Looking forward your advise.

When on AC power the battery light goes orange and then green once the battery is charged. This leads me to think that the DC jack may be OK ? But I am not sure where to go next.

Yep, it sounds like the DC jack is OK.

On pressing the start button the green lights on the top and front, light up for a second (sometime 2-3 secs) and the screen changes subtlety from black to dark grey, (there are no other signs of activity – i.e noises ) and then it all goes dead, and the green lights go out.

It’s hard to tell what is wrong. Sounds like a motherboard related failure.
Try removing all not needed parts: battery, hard drive, DVD drive, wireless card, etc… Leave only major components: motherboard, memory, CPU.
Try again. If the laptop still doesn’t turn on, try removing memory modules one by one. If the problem still there, it’s probably bad motherboard.

i have Acer Aspire 4520 Laptop 2 years old last till last night it was working fine i shutdown properly next morning when i tried to switch it on it didn’t only all indicators light goes on for fraction of second and goes off i can hear cpu fan runed and HDD activity for faction of second then goes off all. What do you think what would be the problem or might be due to bad power adapter board.

1. Unplug AC adapter and remove the battery. Wait for a few minutes, plug in the AC adapter and try turning it on again.
2. If it doesn’t help, test your AC adapter with a voltmeter. It’s possible the adapter is dead and the battery has not charge left.
3. If the adapter outputs correct voltage, there is a chance of bad DC jack (power) board.
4. If you replaced the power board but the problem still there, most likely this is motherboard failure. Not worth fixing.