My ASUS A6403KM notebook does not power up. When I turn the power on the lights come on for quick second and then automatically shuts down. Ive tried taking the battery out and then turning on same thing happens. Ive also tried taking battery out and mains and pressing power button 3 times (as per ASUS support center advice) and replugging in mains power and still same problem. ASUS service centre suggested montherboard needs complete removal (he is 99% sure did not open the laptop or anything! - very pricy this option). Im hoping someone can offer some alternative advice on what they believe the cause is or how I can reticify the problem.
I had the same thing occur with my Acer 5520 Notebook. The green charge light was on but when I pushed the power switch nothing happened. I did some research on the internet and this is what I did that solved the problem:
I removed the battery and unplugged the power supply. I then held down the power button for 45 seconds. I then reinstalled the battery and the power supply and pushed the power button and voila it worked. I did have to try it a couple of times before it woorked but all is well now.
Thx a lot dude !!!
Works fine for me
Unplugged the battery and the supply during one minute the plug the battery and the notebook works fine :D
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OMG! It worked! :D
My Asus X51R has been refusing to boot for about 3 months now due to "CMOS Battery Low", "CMOS Corrupt" and "CMOS Date/Time Not Set", and I have been unable to do anything due to both the F1 (continue) and F2 (Setup) asked for a BIOS password that I never set.
None of the default BIOS passwords I tried worked, and I had quite honestly given up hope.
But after following your instructions (holding the power button without any power source connected for 45 seconds), it now boots up perfectly.
The F1/F2 alternatives still appeared the first time I booted it, but without password requirements.
omg!?@! thank you! so much . you saved me my sanity. I thought my laptop had died again and your trick worked.. thanks you so much :) :) :) this made my day
was playing online game onenight shut down looked this up the next day held down power for 45 seconds with no power and it worked when I connected battery and tryied YAY I LOVEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Wow that totally worked! I was really scared something was wrong with my motherboard
and decided to search the net and I saw your post and tried it for myself.
Thank you ! This solves all my problem, but why does this happen?
i notice alot of Asus laptop's tend to shut down randomly without any notification or explanation and I checked in the ASUS manual under the "common problems" and the first sub heading was about this topic if the asus wont turn on. the advice/solution they gave was to get it repairs because it might be due to HDD & etc.
I'd like to say the same thing guys. But my acer aspire 5520g does not power up. :(( Even after the 45 sec reset. :(
It turns on for 3-4 sec, the fan starts up too but after that it reboots, and the fan does not start any more. I'm so disappointed because if it is the motherboard , the replacement will cost more than the laptop itself. :( I was hopping so much that this solution will work. But...no luck for me:( If any other solutions appear please let me know. THX
i have an asus aj6 laptop, it would begin to startup then suddenly stop, so a friend of mine said the small battery that powers the bios may be flat or not contacting well enough, so I dismantled the machine and finally found the battery, removed it, cleaned the contacts and replaced the batt, semi assembled the machine enough to run it and pushed the bios reset button with a small pin, surprise !, she booted up into windows
I've the same problem in the same model of notebook, but I'm worried about disassemble the notebook, can you explain how to do that, or point me to some tutorial on the web?
Cris, did you fix your Acer 5520G? Mine started to misbehave yesterday. The laptop suddenly shut down in the middle of normal web surfing. Tried to restart, it shut down almost immediately again (got to the ACER BIOS splash screen). Tried again in a few minutes and just got the Windows to boot and then it shut down again. Now it refuses to start at all, and keeps doing the loop of death.
When I press the power button, the green light comes on, the fan runs for 2 seconds and HDD & DVD drive spin and then it turns off. It does this in a loop until I disconnect the battery.
The machine is 1 year and 11 months old, is there any possibility of claiming mobo warranty? This seems to be a very common fault when reading the forums...
OMGOMGOMG!!!!!!! It even solved my problem with USB not working!!!!! :D:D:D:D THANX MAN!!! I OWE YOU BIG TIMES!!!!!!! THAANX SOO FREAKING MUCH!! :D:D I was "THIS" close of buying a new computer since asus didn't know how to solve this problem, then I tryed it my own way, and my comp didn't start out and so on :D:D THANX!
OMGOMGOMG!!!!!!! It even solved my problem with USB not working!!!!! :D:D:D:D THANX MAN!!! I OWE YOU BIG TIMES!!!!!!! THAANX SOO FREAKING MUCH!! :D:D I was "THIS" close of buying a new computer since asus didn't know how to solve this problem, then I tryed it my own way, and my comp didn't start out and so on :D:D THANX!
I have an acer aspire one. After I put it in hibernate, it just wouldn't work again. None of the led lights would light up either - not even the battery one.
So I took off the battery and pressed down the on button for about 45 seconds and, just like PeiPaul said, it worked! I've had this laptop for about 2 days, I was about to shoot myself in the head for breaking it so soon!
PIEPAUL UR A LIFE SAVER... I'VE READ UR ADVICE THAT FOR 45 SECONDS JUST PRESSING THE POWER SWITCH... BOY UR A LIFE SAVER.... HOPE U HELP MORE IN OTHER PROBLEMS... IF I CAN HELP SO, I'LL BE HAPPY TO HELP ANY ONE... I REPAIR PC FOR A FEW MONTHS ALREADY NEED MORE EXPERIENCE... BUT IM WILLING TO SHARE IDEAS TO ANY ONE WHO NEEDS HELP... AGAIN PIEPAUL THANKSSSSS A LOTTT !!!!!!
I was watching the latest episode of Fringe, when halft way through my Asus just went black. Led power light turned on for 1.5 sec and the fan made a quick noise, but then went back to being dead.
Tried pulling the battery as well, but it was the Power-holdning-for-45sek-trick that made my day.
Odd thing is, when I got back into windows, I had some annoying sound theme on, making sounds when clicking folders and stuff.. I have no idea how that got there. Sounds like a virus though!
First time it ever failed , but luckily I found this forum straight away on my pc and followed the instructions. Took the battery out, disconnected from the power adaptor and held the power button for 45 secs. Then plugged it in again, and it works. Thanks for the info.
I was having a nice evening with a few drinks and waking up in the morning with a dead asus eee would have definitely felt like a bad hang over. Many thanks and Cheers!
Thank you, thank you, thank you .... I took the battery out and held down the power button for 55 seconds ... put the power supply back in with out the battery in and she powered up!!! Yah man u r a ledgend ... Dave in Australia
well hey ppl im zoey and ima be honest when I was 14 last feb I got my first laptop as a birthday present thinking asus was a good chioce. by march I didnt have a laptop less then a month the keypad didnt work april came by {birthdays on april} I got a call from best buy saying my laptop couldnt be fixxed tht we would have to ship it from cali to some other state to where the company was at and it was all at are cost! my mom got really mad and had me talk to the manager {mom-only spanish} and my top also had a bunch of virusus and I had not down loaded anything on it do to the fact tht I learned my leason after my anit virus expired on my computer and I explaned to him how my laptop only worked about a month and he told me best buy would take care of it- a week later thy called again saying tht best buy wasnt responsible for the laptop to go pick it up. we went and my laptop had scratches on it and it still didnt work! I talked to the manager again and he traded the laptop for what he called a newer laptop, I went home in may with my "new" laptop but I realised it didnt have and of the clear paper on it like when somethings new it looks well untouched and clean and you have to peel the clear paper off of it well the laptop only had it on the out side part not on the screen, well I was just glad tht the nice man had given us a new better laptop, went on a trip to mexico and disided to put the anti virusus and the man told me tht putting it would be a great idea but tht I would have much memory for anything so I would have to put a 3 month anti-V when I bought a $700 laptop with 4 gigs. and not just tht I was going threw some files and noticed up dates from jan 18 thru april when I got the l/p on may of 09- and now my asus x83vb-x2 some times stays loading to turn on and then just dies due to battery lost its worth less, best buy thy never told me the diffrences from buying an hp, dell or any other brand. sry for my spelling too
I'm not sure I have the same problem.
I got an Asus G50V with windows vista. I left my laptop for 5 minutes and when I came back it was a black screen with the message "Reboot or insert the correct media into selected booting device". It kept on giving me the same lessage with no change so I decided to reboot manually with the power button.
Now all it does is freeze on the Republic of Gamers logo and doesn't boot to windows. After about 5 minutes it comes back to the initial message (reboot or insert media)
It once came up to a flash screen and one other time to the bios.... but even when I reset all the setting it keeps on freezinf at the republic of gamers logo.
I tried the 45 second thing but it doesn't work for me.... but it was after doing it that I managed to acces the bios that one time.
To sum everything up: I can't get passed the first Republic of Gamers logo and can't acces windows....
Thanks so much for this helpful information. She starts great now. I held the power button down for 60 seconds and that was what it took to fix it . Thanks again !
PEIPAUL thank you so much for this information. I held the power button down for a full 60 seconds and now my ASUS starts like it should. Where/ how did you discover this worked so well ?
I took the battery out, press power 45 sec, reinstalled battery, press power.. did it 2 times came on for a couple secs then shut off. On third try, did the same, then connected my charger and viola, its working now. not sure if it was the charger not connecting becuase I was moving alot of stuff around like desks and furniture. I found out the base of the charger was disconnected from the outlet cord. Not sure it was Pre or Post- shutoff problem. whatever it was, thanks a billion.
WOW! thank you so much..my acer Aspire 1690 had no lights on at all...only the green light on the power supply charger...so I did what you did...pulled out the battery and the power charger and held down the power button for 45 or 50 seconds after that put the battery back in and power supply and saw the amber light ..I thought man its going to work..after a year just sitting there and me thinking about putting it on ebay for spare parts..Im rapted I found this...when in actual fact I was searching for a solution for a friend problem....Im so glad my was.thank you heaps!
i have a dell inspiron mini 10 and the charger works but it wont charge my laptop and I tied this a cupple of times but it wont work........what dop I do?
This is a new Windows 7 BIOS issue. All makes are having this on average once every 4 - 5 weeks. For now, deal with removing the battery for 20 seconds and then press and hold the power button down when you re-install the battery. DO NOT uninstall & reinstall any drivers or the BIOS.
i have the same prob. I sometimes have to leave it plugged in and it can take up to half the day before the orange light on the computer well come on and then I can power up the computer. The little green light on the power cord box shows green from the start though. I ave an old acer and yes I had prob with the cd player. Lots icon and everything.
I have a tos, that light on but no one at home, no boot or anything, read your hold button fix tried it ,it didn"t work
put power back on held button 45sec power off, hold button, 45.sec still no avail?? did this 3 times and
AWAY WE GO!!!!!!!!!! I just can"T believe it a million thanks from me(and from a lot of others too)
I have a Gateway (Acer) NV5820u, and a similar problem occurred when I came back from summer class and I had power light on but the battery is dead and no boot-up and display is off. I have tried this technique but doesn't work. I think that if the battery is dead (due to not powering the light on by iteself) but still powers the power light with the power cord attached then it has to do with the battery. This laptop is only 6-months old and I'm disappointed.
I took a can of compressed air, blew the fan and there was some dirt on the battery from my cat that I got off locked the battery back in place and the laptop was fixed, my mom will be happy to hear that her laptop is fixed!
Well, I tried this, and at first, it didn't work...I tried it a few times, and then I left the battery out, and just install the charger cord, and it worked. now all is working fine!
Thanks for this! I was just about to buy a new laptop.
i have the same problem did not work when I tried 45 sec method anyone plz plz help with a different idea ...i am desprate need to sort my laptop have my presentation stuffs in it and by wednsday...
Sheer brilliance!!. My ASUS V2S laptop was dead. Vista flashed up the symbols showing it was flicking quickly between power and battery. Thought there may have been a dodgy power connection. Then a few minutes later (when battery drained)... SPLAT. Little green light on the power adaptor was on, but little orange light on laptop was not.
Battery out, power unplugged, push power button for 45 secs, battery in, power plug in... back in town!!
Thanks PEIPAUL! Due to go on holiday in 2 days, but needing laptop to stay in touch with work. You'ver set my panic to rest.
I recieve also a ASUS LOPTOP the same problem it will shutdown after 3 seconds..the things that I need to do is to removed the battery and put it again and turn on it again..all of the sudden its workkkk...heheheheh
Hello! I am also having problems with my Asus K40IJ-VX092 Laptop, the laptop wouldnt start up, and the lights were there for a few quickly seconds,.. Hope that the company will invistigate on this problem...
have ever back up ur files ... bcause it might be software problem before going to ur respective hardware solutions... do back up first ur datas by using an external enclosure, copy ur files to another pc then after making backups return ur hd to ur laptop & make format... for sure it will work 100% then copy ur file back to ur laptop ( note : before puting ur backup pls install antivirus first just to be sure, OK! ) Hope it works if its still desame give me a message... thanks.. butch tech php
The cooling fan, system is over heating. You're fans (Underneath the ASUS) Take an air compressor and blow through the intake (On side or back of laptop) while the laptop is upside down (Looking down at the bottom of laptop) It usually works, but on the off chance. Your laptop may just need a whole new fan!
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