Acer Aspire 5742 Notebook - Answered Questions & Fixed issues
Acer laptop keep restarting it self every 7 seconds once I push power button and I cant even turn it off to get it to stop.
If you hear a quick click of the dvd/cd unit, and the reboot sequence restarts all over again, endlessly. Most likely this solution will work for you.
1 Unplug the power.
2 Flip the laptop over.
3 Slid the "lock" for the battery so you see red (or the battery is in unlock).
4 Push the other slider mechanism to remove the battery, and slip the battery out of its holder.
5 Take a small Phillips head screw driver and remove the screw in the middle of the back of the laptop.
6 Slide the DVD/CD player out from the side of the laptop.
7 Complete the battery reinstall in reverse steps, plug in the A/C adapter.
7 Power up the laptop.
! Viola - No more boot loop issue.
Now you need a new DVD/CD unit (or you can try to put it back in, sometimes they start working due to a poor connection).
Why? The DVD/CD player in this laptop is a convenient place to pick the laptop up. It gets jostled around a lot. There's also a lot of heat generated right near the units. They also have poor hold down and connections as you will witness, once removed. It is a part of the boot process to check its operation, no work, no boot, it doesn't communicate well either. So it just keeps rebooting not telling you why. Since the player doesn't work, you can't use your recovery discs, lol.
My acer aspire 5742 will
If original OS try resetting or refreshing and if without original go to the re-seller for troubleshooting.
My acer laptop showing ACER logo and press F2 to
If machine not booting it could be a bad cmos, hard drive, mo bo, peripheral, corrupted OS, bad power supply, bad memory,
Remove the hard drive and see if it posts and then gives you message that there no boot drive If that does not happen then machine is not even posting which means something is wrong with the cmos. - not a good thing.
My laptop is geting automatically close after running for long hour
Overheating When the CPU overheats then it will shut down (i.e. thermal overload) and won't boot up again until it has cooled down. If this is the problem is not fixed then the CPU will eventually fail. A faulty fan causes the problem or the fan and heat sink assembly are clogged with dust. Check the CPU fan to see if it spins freely, if not replace the fan. If the fan and heat sink is clogged with dust the remove the dust and make sure the vents are clear and dust free. Use a small brush and can of compressed air to do this.
Acer computer ask for bootable any help?
If your computer is asking for a bootable disk drive on startup, it typically indicates drive failure and your harddrive needs replacement. Sorry for the badnews.
Cursor is not clicking
Download a new driver using the name and number plus add "drivers"... Also, check your cables and that if you have remote mouse, that battery still works.
Aspire 5742 turns on and off contiously
After you remove the hard disk, did you try to boot the machine with a bootable flash drive or CD/DVD? Booting from a Live Linux disc you create on a different machine (free for download and use) or something like that will determine if the rest of the machine has any issues or not. If it will boot like that, then you may have a faulty hard disk, and need to replace it. I hope you have been backing up your data if this is the case.
Power goes on and off continuesly
Yeah, i think your HDD might be lifespan is nearing it end.if you want to back up your data inside that HDD, assuming you gonna buy a new HDD soon, just give your current HDD to the seller and they will gladly extract whatever they can from it to your new HDD.
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