ACER Aspire One Power Problem Solved/Closed

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Hello,
Searching for possible solutions to a problem that I am having.  I purchased an ACER Aspire One in Dec. 2008.  I did the memory upgrade to 1.5 GB and it has been running great.  However, this past weekend my aspire one began to display error messages.  It begins to boot and reports a windows error.  The "R" option will not repair the problem.  When the R option is selected it shuts down.  I try to boot to an external CD-ROM and it shuts down.  I enter bios and try to set the boot options and it shuts down.  I have removed the battery and the same problems occur.

Any suggestions?

Mantis · Accepted Answer

Just where on the bottom do we tap. I have no idea where the fan is
Thanks

meeckeymouse · Answer

You can try doing a system restore! This will recover windows from an earlier time

Try to logged on in safe mode! Press F8 when your machine starts! Then choose safe mode!

Once you have logged in safe mode just do a system restore:

Click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools then select System Restore

Choose a date when your pc was running fine.. let the process to be done 

Restart your machine normally!

Violator · Answer

same problem here, my A0A 150 won't boot, powers itself off, after 20~30 seconds.

i can enter recovery mode but shuts itself after 20 secs

Dave · Answer

I bought one today and the thing closed down after 30 seconds. The tap on the bottom trick did it though. Let's hope it keeps that way. Slightly worrying that this is happening though as it doesn't inspire confidence in the build quality

jerry · Answer

My wife's Aspire 1 kept shutting down on start up.  I noticed the battery light was yellow, not the usual green.  I borrowed our daughter-in-law's ACER power supply for a laptop (same interface but bigger power supply).  It booted right up with the larger power supply.
After about 10 minutes, the yellow battery turned green.  I swithed the power supply back to it's original smaller supply and the laptop worked fine.  After about 20 mintes of charging (while on), I was able to cycle the power on the netbook and it worked fine. 
It appears the ACER Aspire 1 netbook does not want to boot up if the battery is too weak.  The larger rated power supply apparently had more power to spare for booting up.  The power supply that comes with the Aspire 1 netbook must be a bit on the weak side.  It is best to plan ahead and keep the battery charge or get a bigger supply (use one from a larger ACER laptop).

Joseormubra · Answer

I can’t believe but I resolve te same problem tapped the bottom  near to the fans

G}{ost · Answer

Hello, 
My Acer was in a computer backpack that I placed on the table when suddenly it fell to the floor with the netbook side landing first on the tile floor. After that I could not get the netbook to make it into windows. When I pess the power button is was 34 to 35 seconds running then shut off. At first I though I killed the hard drive then I notied it did the same thing when I hit F2 to run the BIOS exactly 35 second from the time I hit the power button go into the BIOS then turn off. 
I did the tip you guys mentioned here by tapping on the button where the fan is located and DAM it is working now. Thanx I thought I just kill the thing I love most. Just don't tell my wife. :-) 
G}{ost

Da_JoJo · Answer

praise the lord !
this actually worked LMAO
it got messed up as I was trying to take to fighting people apart. my laptop bag broke.
so I thought this was going to turn out to be a very nasty thing for me. and all I did was showing people to be in christmas spirit :(
i started looking for answers and first thing I stumbled on was this thread.. 
thank you so much as this saves me a lot of pain in the you-know-where and some other parts-from-behind

terryaxer · Answer

+1 for the tapping the fan trick. My Acer netbook would shut down during the boot process before it got into windows. I thought it could be a bad hard drive, but it did the same thing while in the system bios. I did a search online and stumbled on this thread. I turned the Acer on and started tapping on the bottom and it started right up. Thank you for figuring this out for me.

xena · Answer

My Acer Aspire One was just a couple of months out of warranty when it would shut down right after Windows boot-up. I tried the "tapping-the-fan" trick, and it worked! Thank you for posting this! I almost gave up because I didn't want to pay to ship it to the Acer service center.

chuey · Answer

My fan is a little louder now then usual but I think its really funny, I encountered the same problem and it works now after tapping, I sersiouly thought my laptop was damaged

devilzangel · Answer

omg the three taps idea was great. worked for me(y) I am so happy! I had my assignments and lab due on the same day and my compture just wonnt stay on for more than 30 secs. its happily working now (been working for the last 10 mins:P) 
thank you very much
really appreciate it

islandremix · Answer

Tried Everything:
Reflashing Bios, trying a system restore, tried running a Linux live cd, tried multiple Operating systems, tried Ultimate Bood CD, Hirens Boot CD. I was just about fed up with my Acer Netbook, I almost threw it on eBAY and sold it as a broken laptop for DIRT CHEAP. Then I some how came across this thread and what do you know....  Hitting the laptop a couple times did the trick. Usually when people get mad thats the first thing they do is take the anger out on whatever made them mad in the first place. Being patient with my Netbook almost cost me alot of money. I give many THANKS to the person who figured this one out and started this thread.

Elizabeth · Answer

I have that laptop and I hate to say this but when mine did that it was a hardrive failure. Luckily I found someone who could copy my busted harddrive onto a new one for 170.

Coco · Answer

Oh my gosh, it worked!!!! I was about ready to throw the computer in the trash. I was so upset in frustrated. I will admit I hit it pretty hard about 8-10 times and the fan didn't come on. I was about to give up. Then, it just came on! OMG! Thanks You So Much!!!

Little Tasha · Answer

Really, I was a mere 20 seconds away from smashing my Acer Aspire One to smithereens after finding out that not only had it "died" but that it was one day out of warranty. I attempted the BIOS restore - nothing. And as sceptical as I was about tapping the underside of a netbook to get it working...I tried and it WORKED! Thanks peeps and housies, you just saved me a whole lot of casharoo!

dcompguy · Answer

Hitting it works! thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!! I had SO MUCH STUFF on my laptop!  this saved my life!!!!!

Frank · Answer

Wow, really works. First time in my life hitting a computer actually works. Thanks

Steve · Answer

Great thanks for posting this it worked for me....

Graham Powell · Answer

It worked for me too. The fist time it booted, and lasted about a minute before powering down again. repeated the tapping, and it's booted now and hasn't shut down since! thanks for the great solution! I would LOVE to know technically, what's really happening. a theory would would be that somehow it's reporting a higher temp, so it shuts down. any ideas? is there something you could do internally?

t0mmyd · Answer

I thought you guys were crazy as I am a pc tech. 3 taps and the laptop not only boots, but is stable

jumbo · Answer

Sweet... I'm so glad I found this site. Thanks guys!

chelle · Answer

thanks everyone I cannot belive it worked but hitting if fairly hard made it work again I am so happy. I didn't lose all my pics and wrighting, now to back it up onto my flash drive.
 I am bookmarking this website btw

peterd · Answer

Worked for me too. A few taps, and back in business. Ingenious!

aceruser · Answer

Thank you for the fix! Had the same problem and now the netbook is starting up fine.

Quickie · Answer

Dudes,
I have been reading these forums for the whole weekend about the shutdown problem with the Acer Aspire One AOA150.
Tried all the solutions, including taking the netbook apart, and nothing worked.

FINALLY I GOT THE SOLUTION THAT WORKED FOR ME!!!! :-)

Basically it is the CPU overheating. I think whatever controls when the cooling fan switches on does not do its job with the latest BIOS update (Which IS needed to get the battery to charge).
I installed: Acer Aspire One (AA1) Fan Control for Windows XP/Vista.

http://www.computentsystems.de/aceraspireonefancontrol/

Monitor the CPU temperature and set accordingly.

Hope this will save others the time I had to spend on it

hunter · Answer

I don't know if this is for here but that's amazing ........ I have to tell it.So I got a acer 1410 from a friend with a power problem the notebook won't turn ON with the battery or on AC power.Tried everything it seems to be DEAD.
so the solution was - I tapped twice with my fingers right next to the power button and the sh*t turn on.It was OFF for more than 1 year and nobody seems to found a fix about it.I hope I helped someone if you cant turn it on DOUBLETAPP THE B*tch maybe it will work for you too.....

DJliam · Answer

Worked for me too. How odd. Probly something like the fan gewtting stuck and needed a little "persuasion" to work.

Gallo · Answer

OMG I can't believe this actually worked! saved my life thank you!!!!

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