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Hi, I have an acer aspire 5542 laptop that turns on, the fan spins but I have no display. I’m pretty sure the issue is with the motherboard or the gpu on the board, but don’t know how to test it. First, I’m wondering if a dead gpu can be hot? Can he produce some heat? I don’t want to buy another board, this is a old laptop and I just want to learn and try to fix it by myself. However, I don’t know where to begin with. I was thinking about testing voltage on the display connector to know if atleast the current goes there, but as I said I’m not sure and this is my first time so I don’t have any kind of experience and for the moment I’m just trying to figure out where to begin with.
try taking out the battery and charger and hold down the power button for 60 seconds. if that doesnt help it could also be a ram issue
