Boot Error

[Guppygould]

Hey all, just tried to but my lappy (an old acer aspire) & get nothing, I don't even reach the bios! I doubt it's a hardware problem as it worked fine yesterday, I tried the usual (booting from a disk) and still got nothing, I'm a linux user and pretty tech savy. I've read that it could be something to do with the CMOS. Any suggestions?

 

[tsnor]

1. Unplug laptop and then pull the battery from the laptop. Let the capacitors drain for a few minutes then reinstall battery. See if that resets it.

2. Give us a bit more information.... Do you see any power lights come on when you try to power on ? Does the screen show any of the BIOS splash messages? Can you hear the hard drive spin up ? IF the screen gets messages, what are the last ones you saw ?