Laptop Failure

[Kouen]

Hello Escapist!

I Was recently Given a Laptop for free knowing it had a issue. an Acer Aspire 7520.

Specs:

AMD Turion 64 X2 @ 2ghz
2Gb DDR2 Ram
120Gb Hitachi 5400RPM HDD
Nvidia Geforce 7000m Graphics
17 Inch wxga 1440x900 Screen
DVD Burner

Well Basically It powers up doesn't post then turns off and loops this till i kill all power to the laptop itself.


What I Have Tried:

Taken out the ram and Put it back cleaning the ram pins
Tried 1 stick of ram (both tested)
Taken out and reseated the S1 Socket AMD Turion
Heated up the Nvidia Graphics chip to a super hot temp
Taken out the Hard Drive
Taken out the DVD Drive

Still no go, Ive invested on eBay the cheapest S1 CPU I could find in case the CPU inside the laptop now is dead, a 1.6ghz Turion 64 x2 with half the l2 cache. didn't want to blow much money on a theory.

Any Other Idea's? I'm not stuck for a PC without the laptop I have my Main Gaming PC but wouldn't mind getting this laptop up n running just trying to avoid sending it to Acer for a new mobo as that may be expensive (out of guarantee repair)

Thanks in advance!

 

[The_Healer]

Looks like a motherboard or cpu problem.

If the motherboard was working it would come up with the bios and then crash, but you can never be sure.

 

[DarthFennec]

I've had a problem like this before on a ThinkPad ... I think. It was a long time ago. But I do remember trying replacing the CMOS battery. If you can get at that, try it. I have no clue if it will help though.

 

[Kouen]

koolies ill try to get to the cmos battery and see, its under the keyboard so wont be fun to get too xD

 

[DarthFennec]

Hope it works :3