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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: helper on January 13, 2011, 12:56:28 PM

Title: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: helper on January 13, 2011, 12:56:28 PM

Title says it all; I have an Acer Aspire One AOA150 that shuts down after about thirty-five seconds. windows xp gets about half-way through booting, then it just shuts off. I have also tried booting a ubuntu live cd and going into bios setup, and either way it still shuts off, in my opinion ruling out windows as the culprit.

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: patio on January 13, 2011, 01:40:07 PM

Overheating would be my 1st guess...

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: helper on January 13, 2011, 01:44:29 PM

I was wondering about that, but it's cool to the touch. Could it still be overheating?

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: Accessless on January 13, 2011, 04:21:17 PM

Yes if the CPU heat sink isn't properly making contact with the CPU. The rest of the laptop would probably be cool to the touch.

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: helper on January 13, 2011, 05:56:27 PM

I opened it up, but it looks like it doesn't even have a spot to put a heatsink. There is a hole in the panel that seperates the keyboard and motherboard that the CPU pokes through, touching the keyboard. Also, if i try booting it without the keyboard/motherboard panel, it still shuts down, although it could be lasting a litte longer.

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: jason2074 on January 13, 2011, 08:30:59 PM

Check air on the side panel ventilation if fan is running during the time its on going off . Try removing Network card and One RAM module while booting. If successfull, download HWMonitor and check the temperature.

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: helper on January 13, 2011, 09:46:09 PM

It's fixed. Thanks a bunch everyone. Whilst I'm not even sure exactly what fixed it, it did appear to be a ventilation issue. I removed the entire motherboard, finding more dust than in the whole rest of my house. I cleaned everything out and it seems to be staying on. Again, I thank everybody. Although nobody was spot on, you all came close.

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: jason2074 on January 13, 2011, 10:03:59 PM

HWMonitor should also be used to check machine temperature just in case...

Title: Re: Acer Aspire One, shuts down after about thirty-five seconds.
Post by: helper on January 13, 2011, 10:47:58 PM

OK. As many times as it's tried to die on me, I suppose it can't hurt :)