I swear my laptop just has one problem after another.
When the laptop is on, and the AC adapter is in, the part that plugs into the laptop heats up. Now, it's not a device/driver problem, and I don't think it's a physical problem, since the only thing I've done is put in a new HDD, and Acer Aspires come with a nifty little removable access panel just for that.
Also, one of my power cords stopped working since this started, and I'm using a second one that's doing the same thing.
Oh, and they both also had this.. odd... clicking noise coming from that direction. :x
[01:06] <Hiryuu[zzz]> well gee Tyty you didn't say anything about clicking
[01:06] <Hiryuu[zzz]> you might have a ground short in your lappy
[01:07] <Hiryuu[zzz]> or a ground short from the electricity in your house, either or
[01:07] <Hiryuu[zzz]> course you'll know if it's your house if you have a power strip that detects ground and the ground's going all funky or doesn't light
[01:07] <Hiryuu[zzz]> oh goddammit
At that point I realized you weren't even on.
Course, this is only a guess but I have had laptops react similarly when their input voltage had poor or no ground. Caused all sorts of batshit things.
Well... our house has... fucked up breakers to say the least. For instance, turning off the one labelled kitchen kills: My lights, and one plug-in in my room, parents' room power, brother's lights, and ironically, nothing in the kitchen.
My best bet actually would probably be to test it outside the house, which I can't really do. :/
Again, this only started after I put the new HDD in, but I'm sure that's not the problem. >.>
I suppose it might be possible your new HD has different power requirements, but I'm with Hiryuu in thinking it's probably a supply issue. You haven't bent the DC connector at all or bashed it, I'm assuming.
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Originally posted by SukasaI suppose it might be possible your new HD has different power requirements, but I'm with Hiryuu in thinking it's probably a supply issue. You haven't bent the DC connector at all or bashed it, I'm assuming.
Nope.
Even odder, the first time it happened, the clicking sound didn't show up for a few hours either, but it's certainly coming from the power area and not the harddrive. I have good ears.
Tried it in the laundry room (Has its own breaker, since that's where the box is), no dice, heats up...
The battery wasn't charging, but my laptop was originally used, and since Acer is cheap, they didn't replace it last time it was sent in, so the battery probably died of old age.
Might be the power though. This model sometimes has power problems...
Thing is, we usually bring it in to Best Buy to have them fix it, and they'd send it off to Acer. Problem is, I don't want to send it with the new HDD and get a shitty 100GB WD drive back with Acer's shittyVista on it back :/
I had an issue on my Aspire One as well where the battery, still in decent shape, just stopped charging altogether. Got that issue fixed, at least.
I'm seriously hoping you still have the old drive, like Hiryuu said. As for them reinstalling an OS; that actually happened for me too. When I sent it in for repair, it only had Ubuntu on it. Got it back with XP SP3 again. No idea why they do that. (At least they told me they were going to reinstall the OS over the phone, so I had a chance to kill 7...)
Sounds like a short to me. Clicking means some arcing, which is really dangerous and bad.
You're still better off than me. My Toshiba A75-S2091 basically melted the hard drive and became too hot to type on, and killed all the fans inside it.
Originally posted by TytyAcer put WARRENTY VOID WHEN SEAL BROKEN stickers on the HDD and RAM access panels.
...The fuck? Those weren't on my netbook. I was able to swap the 1GB and 2GB sticks again without issue.
Worst comes to worst, you could try partitioning the HD and performing an actual install of Ubuntu. (It's substantially more stable than Live USB versions, from my experience...) That, or XP's still good...
This except mine had 1GB of RAM right off the bat, and came with a 100GB HDD which got upgraded by Best Buy dude to a Western Digital 160GB which, as you know, failed. :V
Couple of routes to try if you can't, for whatever reason, isolate the issue as being the power supply or the brick itself or something else:
1) Get a replacement charger. Looking online with that model number, they go for 7 dollars for that exact model.
2) If that doesn't work, it's likely something internal and something that you'd have to crack open. Could be the power supply or possibly something on the motherboard itself. Researching the product in particular found this to be a bit of a common problem (most relating to capacitors on the motherboard, but that shouldn't really indicate a ground short; if it was capacitors it likely wouldn't power at all). This route will probably fix it but you'll likely be spending some time figuring it out and having the notebook cracked just to see if it works for you or not.
3) Replacement lappy. Not the route I'm sure you want to hear but likely the easiest at this point. Given that you're working with a computer that has a 1.6GHz Celeron and you're used to the speed, however, you might want to consider investing in a netbook. Smaller screen aside (at 1024x600) it will do what you want it and run Windows 7 fine. I'm typing this post up on the very same.
More to the point...you have parts in that laptop you could use with the netbook I have now. It takes upwards of 2 gigs of DDR2 SODIMM and a 2.5" SATA drive. That's all you need to get the ball rolling. Checking on Newegg, the price of it right now is 259 USD. It has a 1.6GHz Atom (which is like yours, only dual-thread) and runs fairly nice for what's needed. Only negatory is the battery lasts a good 2 1/2 to 3 hours at max. Most netbooks anymore can go a lot higher than that.
Case in point, the netbook I got my father for his birthday coming up goes for 299. ASUS Eee. Runs 11 hours. Not a bad start, but has Windows 7 Starter (you have Ultimate so you can reformat no problem with it). Better specs of the processor for this one (1.6GHz dual-core, dual-thread) but a few less options that the OCZ has in its stead (better cam and WWAN being two examples). Of course, you could easily fix that. Moreover, you should be able to part it for other parts if it came down to it no problem if you're accustomed to opening a lappy as it is.
Well, if I do get e new computer I'd want to get one probably more powerful than mine is now, I mean, I want to be able to play SOME games and stuff. :/
I was able to swap the 1GB and 2GB sticks again without issue.
