Two possible things I have tried with a similar problem. If you remove the battery, then plug in the power adpater, will it power on correctly? If so, connect to acer's website and download and install the latest BIOS v 3.10.

Same thing with my acer , worked great this morning , then tonight , the moment i started my computer , the screen first went black, finally it let me into windows but i lost all use of my mouse and keyboard, even at the f keys, f2, del, f8 and so on, Nothint, now at start up it goes to windows error screen , counts down the minutes before the choice highlighted which is repair system begins to run, there it asks for a choice of which i CANT CHOOSE< BECAUSE THE DAMN arrows dont work ,.... sys please help , if i have to how can i get data and transfer it without being able to navigate with keyboard or mouse??? thanks Dan

Hey steve, hate to tell you, but you have a hardware issue. I know because I have the same exact problem. You have to call Acer and they'll fix it. But it has to be shipped to Temple, TX. I'm actually sending mine out. Anyway, I'm not sure where you live, but the number you can call for help is 1-800-816-2237. Good Luck.

Well yay I get to add to the fucked up Acers!! I've had my computer since last Christmas worked fine until a month ago. It got some kind of virus after my Anti Virus expired. Windows Defender notified me of it, I downloaded another Anti Virus program and got rid of it. Next time I try to boot up it turns on.... and that's it. I can get into F8 and various other F buttons. Now it goes straight to system recovery options such as system restore and other things, I try to do the complete system restore and it say Cannot complete, corruption in (C:/). I called Acer and I still had warranty at the time but they won't cover a backup Vista cd. Of course it didn't come with my Acer, which is bullshit. However you need a credit card or debit card to order the cd, which I have neither. With today's economy, I'm a struggling 21 year old bartender, I can't afford brand new Vista. So now my $600 computer is worthless. =( I'm not even going to ask if anyone knows how to help me because I'm sure with my luck the only thing to fix it is new Vista! But if anyone has any tips on what I should do let me know. Thank youu<3

My laptop is IBM R50,same thing happened as yours.so i went to repaired.

what the technician did and said

he opened the laptop body and clean all the dust on my fan with dust cleaner spray and check everything are working properly(remove all ram,you should hear beeb!!) and surprisingly my laptop work now.

he told me that possible my video card going badly or loosen,so he advise me do not over starch my screen,because he found my screen hinges already loosen due to material defect.

I hope this may help you...

So i have an acer Aspire 5570 and when i power it up, it goes to the acer screen, but then the screen turns black. If i wait long enough, an error message will come up and tell me that i am missing the file /system32/hal.dll. I have tried booting from a Windows disc... no luck. I have also gone through the BIOS, but it wont let me do anything, it freezes. after taking the bottom plate off my hard drive bay, i started it up again, and the same things happened, but my hard drive makes ticking noises, different from those it should be making. My best guess is that the reader-head on my hard drive is broken, and this is why it won't boot. I have yet to actually test my hunch!

The problem with my Acer 5100 was a faulty hard drive controller. I payed Laptop Recuer service to replace it and they did at a cost of $250. It now works. Before this I tried nearly ever suggesred solution and none worked . I only wish I had the skill to do the replacement myself but that is the likely problem to the boot up problems a lot of you are perplexed with.

Same thing on my laptop, my batter wont charge but when i turn it on without ac chord the led light up for about 2-3 secs and then shuts down, sometimes if lucky the fan spins for a while and shuts down again.....

without the battery and ac chord connected theres no led power at all no fans spinning whatsoever..

do you think its a board problem?? processor??

Ok to boot in to safe mode you need to restart the system and press delete a few time and that will give you the menu

My Acer 5100 computer has been a pain in the tail for over two years now. I have had many of the same problems listed here. I sent it back to Acer 2 times and I sent it to the circuit city repair people (actually: Nexicore) 3 or 4 times now. It always works fine for a few months and then starts getting weird (crashes), and then eventually becomes so slow that it's essentially inoperable. A few times, the transition has been very quick, as in under 24 hours. Working fine to ~inoperable within a few hours! Just this last time, it was a "general host process" error, and the comp wouldn't boot up. I just ordered the recovery discs from Acer (30 bucks, thanks jerks!) and reinstalled everything and the computer has been working great for the last couple of days. (obviously, this process wipes your harddrive clean, so back yo stuff up). I have little confidence that this will last, but for what it's worth, it did solve the problem. So call Acer up, order the discs. You'll get them in a week. Follow the instructions that come with them and hopefully the machine will work again (at least temporarily).

When u turn on ur laptop keep pressing pressing del key .then may it can work

For all of you people having acer aspire problems i am too but i only need a few more bits to get mine fixed so if you lose hope on fixing yours and want to sell email craigybaby00@hotmail.com