Laptop works after warmed up

[Gabriel Knight]

Hi all, I have an Acer Aspire 1700 laptop, when I turn it on it goes past
the option to load into the bios then the screen goes black sometimes it has
a blinking "-" at the top left of the screen. Nothing will happen so I boot
into the bios it accepts it by pressing "F2" then it goes to the bios, but
now nothing works ie left - right keys etc. Sometimes if I leave it at the
bios screen for about 20 minutes it works fine. I have tried to pull out the
HDD and 2x sticks of ram, it wont boot into anything with no ram so I tried
one at a time to see if the ram is faulty but they are fine and the HDD is
not any problem. Why dose it work sometimes and other times it dosnt is it
when it warms up? Is the CPU faulty? Do I need to flash/reinstall the bios?

Thanks all
GK

 

[Conor]

Hi all, I have an Acer Aspire 1700 laptop, when I turn it on it goes past
the option to load into the bios then the screen goes black sometimes it has
a blinking "-" at the top left of the screen. Nothing will happen so I boot
into the bios it accepts it by pressing "F2" then it goes to the bios, but
now nothing works ie left - right keys etc. Sometimes if I leave it at the
bios screen for about 20 minutes it works fine. I have tried to pull out the
HDD and 2x sticks of ram, it wont boot into anything with no ram so I tried
one at a time to see if the ram is faulty but they are fine and the HDD is
not any problem. Why dose it work sometimes and other times it dosnt is it
when it warms up? Is the CPU faulty? Do I need to flash/reinstall the bios?

If its the P4 one, its an old girl now. Chances are there's a fault with
some of the capacitors on the mainboard.

 

[jinxy]

If its the P4 one, its an old girl now. Chances are there's a fault with
some of the capacitors on the mainboard.

A bios update (if there is a newer one, can't hurt) or a bios
reinstall, is worth a try. Go for it if you truly are sick of waiting
and hoping it loads windows and runs normally. -J