Broke another laptop

Glaucus · 23-07-2009, 20:06

Got an acer 3000 ferrari laptop. very slow. But had w7 on and all I did was use it to browse the net and a tiny bit of openoffice.
(Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ with Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics, 512MB DDR RAM, 60GB hard disk)

Working fine until I decided, totally forgetting how old it was. To open up all bookmarks for today 376 of them(firefox). Obviously it ground to a halt. Couldn't even get to task manager. So held down power button for 10 seconds until it turned off. Turn it back on and bam no screen. Fans and hdd seem to spin up for a couple of seconds, then gfx card fan reduces speed and stays at a low speed. if you open up the cd drive and put something in it spins it for a few seconds and the light flashes.

But still no display.
Any ideas. I don't see how that could of broke it, coincidence maybe. Is there a way to reset bios.

23-07-2009, 20:06	#1
Glaucus Absinthe Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,855	Broke another laptop Got an acer 3000 ferrari laptop. very slow. But had w7 on and all I did was use it to browse the net and a tiny bit of openoffice. (Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ with Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics, 512MB DDR RAM, 60GB hard disk) Working fine until I decided, totally forgetting how old it was. To open up all bookmarks for today 376 of them(firefox). Obviously it ground to a halt. Couldn't even get to task manager. So held down power button for 10 seconds until it turned off. Turn it back on and bam no screen. Fans and hdd seem to spin up for a couple of seconds, then gfx card fan reduces speed and stays at a low speed. if you open up the cd drive and put something in it spins it for a few seconds and the light flashes. But still no display. Any ideas. I don't see how that could of broke it, coincidence maybe. Is there a way to reset bios. __________________