ok, so this morning, when i went to turn on my new laptop, it would not turn on. the charging light was on, but pressing the power button did nothing.
I was pretty distraught, but i figured i should google to see if it's something well known with this laptop. and, the highest voted suggestion was to do the following:
1. Unplug the laptop
2. Remove the battery
3. Remove the RAM (this is the weird bit)
4. Hold down the power button for 30 seconds
5. put everything back in
6. it will turn on fine now
I figured it was worth a shot
and it worked!
can someone explain to me how on earth this worked? was removing the RAM a red herring? what gives?
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removing the ram... could be nothing given that acer doesn't mention it, could be to avoid damage to it from the reset process, could be to make sure it doesn't drain into an inconsistent state? just spitballing
I dunno