Acer > no BIOS pass test beep

[HippsieGypsie]

Hi all. Went to boot up my Acer this evening to no avail. I can see it start to cycle through searching the DVD drive and see the read/right red LED light for the hard drive go on for about 5 seconds, then nothing. No BIOS test pass beep. I know that it beeps once for passing, then continues to boot. I hear the fans going. but that's it.

I took the side panel off and reseated all the connections including the Mem strips. At one time I left a strip out intentionally for a continuous beep, which is what it's suppose to do.

It was running great earlier today. Shut it down with the physical power button as I always do.

I'm searching the Inet to no avail. Any thoughts?

 

[alphanumeric]

Nothing on the monitor? No BIOS POST screen?
Here is what I normally do in a situation like this.
Unplug anything not needed for the PC to POST, all you need is the bare minimum.
Power supply, motherboard, CPU with heat sink, one stick of RAM, Video card (onboard if it has it), Monitor and keyboard.
If it will now POST add parts back in one at a time until it quits again. If it won't POST start swapping parts. I'd try a spare power supply first. Then Video Card, and RAM etc.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Nothing on the monitor? No BIOS POST screen?
Here is what I normally do in a situation like this.
Unplug anything not needed for the PC to POST, all you need is the bare minimum.
Power supply, motherboard, CPU with heat sink, one stick of RAM, Video card (onboard if it has it), Monitor and keyboard.
If it will now POST add parts back in one at a time until it quits again. If it won't POST start swapping parts. I'd try a spare power supply first. Then Video Card, and RAM etc.

Thank you for answering, Kerry.

Nothing on the monitor. No BIOS screen post. Just What I stated above. I will perform your process of elimination. It'll have to wait for later on today. I have to set some kitchen cabinets today. This morning I'm using an old Dell tower with XP. Man this thing is slow!

 

[theog]

Also try removing all power & the BIOS battery.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Thanks, guys. It is fixed. I think it turned out to be that the LAN card wasn't seated correctly. I unhooked all other but that, thinking it possibly couldn't be it, but I had no post until I did. Put each item in one by one and all is well, including LAN. Something wasn't seated correctly.

While I was at it, I changed the CMOS battery.

Thanks again.

 

[rvcjew]

betting it was the cmos not the nic but who knows glad its fixed.

 

[alphanumeric]

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[HippsieGypsie]

betting it was the cmos not the nic but who knows glad its fixed.

Thanks. Odds would have it it was the battery since it's an older machine and has never been changed, but it didn't post immediately after changing. It may take a few cycles? I dunno. Strange that it didn't post until after pulling the card.

Lol! First thing I saw in my eyes after it wouldn't boot > <($ $)> and that dreadful sinking feeling!

 

[theog]

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