Laptop down - help needed

[Shibiz]

Sorry for having to write this in english.

 

I'm danish myself, and posted my need for help in my msn, when my Norwegian friend, Shahab, told me I could ask here, because you people were very good and very fast with this kind of stuff.

 

So please bare with me.

 

I wanted to try setting up my laptop to the telly today.

 

I have a Ferrari 3200 model, and have had it for about 2 years now.

I've never tried the whole TV out thingy but since i had the cables for it, i thought i should try.

 

I had the S-video cable + audio cable set up to the laptop from the telly.

I went to fix the settings so the resolution matched the telly, and it worked.

I tested some movies on it, and it worked fine.

 

After about 20-30 mins, my laptop went BEEP - *blue screen* - shut down.

 

Now each time I try to turn it on, it shows that its turned on (by a small LED on the laptop), but nothing happens. The fan swings abit but nothing. Screen is black and nothing happens.

 

I tried to unplug the battery and when i do this the laptop goes: BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, pause BEEP BEEP pause, BEEP. and then nothing

 

I've tried turning the laptop on with the S-video cable plugged into the laptop, and i've tried without having it plugged into the laptop, but nothing.

 

Any advise?

I'ma call the producer on Monday, but I would really like to get it working again my myself.

 

HELP PLZ

Endret 17. mars 2007 av Shahab

[RulleRimfrost]

Could be that it's stuck on the external display setting. Try turning it on, and switch displaymode with the Fn + "button with a picture of a little screen" on it (F3 on my laptop)

 

BTW : computer is not on until HDD-light stops blinking.

Endret 17. mars 2007 av RulleRimfrost

[Shibiz]

Thanks for your reply.

 

I've tried that and it doesnt seem to work.

Its like it doesnt even load dos/ as if the bios doesnt work, it isnt loading windows, there is no HDD activity for more than 3 seconds, after that its just still.

Nothing.

 

I tried unplugging the battery and holding down the on/off bottom for 10 seconds, but that doesnt work either (someone told me to do that)

 

[RulleRimfrost]

No hdd-activity means no boot. If you want to exclude other cheap fixes first you could probably find a tech-support or experienced user of Acer to guide you trough a blind bios flash and hook it too an external monitor to double check, but most likly your gpu is gone. I dont think it's a replacable module, so new mainboard will be the only solution.

 

Most of the time it is the TV set that brakes when fed signals it cant handle, but it seems your tv fought back, and won...

[Shibiz]

Several people suggested that i fried my RAM or the RAM on the GFX:

 

If you listen to the beeps, its 1-3-4-3.

The bios code says that that is "test 51k memory"

 

I removed the RAM to see if that would change the beeping system, but nope, still the same, so it would likely be the RAM on the gfx, which would make sense imo?

 

Used a part of the gfx card i never used before, and it couldn't handle it.

 

Like u said, the TV fought back and it won.

 

gonna call tech tomorrow and hear what to do now.

 

Thanks alot for ur help.

[zacka]

I don't know if you've already got it, but here's the link for the complete service manual:

 

http://www.eserviceinfo.com/

 

(Remember to download all 3 parts before extracting it).

 

It's for the Ferrari 3000-model, but I guess it's much the same. Try looking into the troubleshooting section. There is a lot of things you can try.

 

Edit: the original link just started the download of part 1. Search for acer ferrari and download the servicemanual for the 3000-model. The manual for 3200 is just the FRU-list.

Endret 20. mars 2007 av zacka