Hi Everyone!
I'm having problems with my Acer Travelmate 290 laptop. By me happens exactly the same, as described in following thread - http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread68023.html.
The laptop doesn't boot - it just starts up, fan spins for few seconds and then everything dies. Screen all the time is black, I can't see there anything. I've tried re-inserting RAM, cleaning all the dust out of it. As it was mentioned in the post above, I also was thinking, that it could be related to the battery on the mainboard. So I got into my laptop and checked it - at the moment it gives somewhere ~ 3.1V. I'm not sure - is it OK or not?
Additionally, after checking the battery and putting all things back together I've managed to boot up my laptop once (winxp started normally), but it was running like for 1 minute maximum and afterwards all screen just went totally white. After making reset - it doesn't boot anymore and everything is black again.
Any ideas, what could be the problem?
Thanks in advance!
Cunami