Help with laptop pls. HARDWARE Failure.

[hairygit1]

Hi,
Thanx for looking in.

I have acquired an old Acer / Texas Instruments Extensa 670CD.

The problem with it is that it doesn't seem to do anything!! ;-]

The green charging light comes on if the battery is in. Otherwise, nothing, no lights, sound, heat, smells etc etc.
The battery itself has a good charge [used a tester]. The power supply is the second new one I have used [19v].

Any ideas?
I tried to open the damned thing, and only got so far into it - can't get to the power unit. And how the hell was anyone supposed to change the CMOS battery. Not very user-hardware-fixing-friendly. I know my way round desktops, but this is a whole new ball game.

Hope to read up some excellent ideas b4 the distance test is taken. [How far does it fly?]

Cheers in advance

 

[hairygit1]

only a sem-demi bumpp.


After reading the manual for the cursed machine, it seems that I have now discovered that no power is getting to the laptop at all, ie no power light. As I said before, the only time any life at all shows is when the battery is charging.

Now I have a lovely fully charged battery and nowhere to go.