[SOLVED] Acer Predator 15 Won't Start

[Appletax]

Solved: replaced power adapter and it got fried, too. Either the DC jack or mobo is bad and causing a short.


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Acer Predator 15 (G9-593, GTX 1070) does nothing when the power button is pressed and all the LED lights are off, including the indicator light for when it's plugged in.

Tried a universal power charger.

The DC jack is not soldered to the motherboard and it feels very tight.

Seems like I have two options: try replacing the DC jack first and if that does not work, replace the motherboard.

All I am finding for a motherboard is one that's a massive $549.

 

[nlinecomputers]

On ANY laptop, a faulty display or bad memory module can ground out the system. But honestly, most likely the cpu or mobo is toast.

 

[River Valley Computer]

If you have a DVM trace the power cable and make sure you have =/- 19 Volts. If you do probably the mobo or CPU unless the power switch or cable is bad.

 

[Appletax]

Hopefully I did this right.

Set the multimeter to 20 DCV.

Plugged the black probe into the left port (also tried middle port) and the red probe into the right port.

Touched the black probe onto one of the DJ jack's black wire ends.

Touched the red probe onto one of the DC jack's red wire ends.

Reading of 0 volts.

Equals dead DC jack????