My acer aspire 5517 will not boot up

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jay - Nov 29, 2011 at 02:16 PM
liljay Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday November 29, 2011 Status Member Last seen December 1, 2011 - Nov 29, 2011 at 03:13 PM
Hello,

my acer aspire 5517 laptop will not boot up but the power light comes on and the fan and hard drive and cd drive start as well the screen flickers when you first press the power button I recently did a hardware diagnostic and it told me im only runnin at 256megs of ram but I have a 1 gig ram card and a 2 gig ram card so all in all im runnin 3 gigs why would it tell me im only runnin at 256 megs and when I took them out to look at them and then put them back in the same way my laptop started actin up by not powering on please help me

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xpcman Posts 19530 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,825
Nov 29, 2011 at 03:11 PM
I would re-install only one memory card to identify if one of you cards has failed or is incompatible with the laptop.

Good Luck
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liljay Posts 2 Registration date Tuesday November 29, 2011 Status Member Last seen December 1, 2011
Nov 29, 2011 at 03:13 PM
its the ones that I got wit the laptop so im sure they are compatiable
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