Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5315-2326 that I am working on. I just basically refurbished most of it now, I installed a new 500g sata drive, power cord, battery, DVD burner, keyboard, and 2 new sticks of 1g ram when they get here (not installed yet).
The laptop came with Vista Home 32bit, it had a 160g hdd that had bad sectors and wouldn't boot anymore, the bad scetors were in the boot partition, it also had a problem with random shutdowns at any time. So I gave it a good cleaning when I installed the parts, put everything back together. I used Gparted to split the drive into 2 fairly equal partions, I then installed a Linux OS called Pear OS (I know, its discontinued according to distrowatch, I think I'll switch to Linux Lite), Everything thing ran fine for a while but then it started having shutdown issues again. So I tore it apart again and took off the old paste from the cpu and gpu and put on some fresh. Put it back together and it started up fine. I then went to youtube and let it play "song remains the same" while I went to bed. I got up a few hours later and it was still running. Thought I fixed the problem.
I took it to work tonight and in the span of 1 hour it had shutdown twice.
I took the back off, turned it on its side while open and turned it on, the fan started to spin while the bios was booting but as soon as the os boot screen started to boot the fan stopped. As far as I could tell it doesn't come back on at all. I was then able to run it for 3 hours and then I turned it off.
When it shutsdown it is very hot where the heatsink is.
Is the fan bad even though it turns on at first or could it be something in the os? I found another fan but wann be sure before I buy it.
The laptop came with Vista Home 32bit, it had a 160g hdd that had bad sectors and wouldn't boot anymore, the bad scetors were in the boot partition, it also had a problem with random shutdowns at any time. So I gave it a good cleaning when I installed the parts, put everything back together. I used Gparted to split the drive into 2 fairly equal partions, I then installed a Linux OS called Pear OS (I know, its discontinued according to distrowatch, I think I'll switch to Linux Lite), Everything thing ran fine for a while but then it started having shutdown issues again. So I tore it apart again and took off the old paste from the cpu and gpu and put on some fresh. Put it back together and it started up fine. I then went to youtube and let it play "song remains the same" while I went to bed. I got up a few hours later and it was still running. Thought I fixed the problem.
I took it to work tonight and in the span of 1 hour it had shutdown twice.
I took the back off, turned it on its side while open and turned it on, the fan started to spin while the bios was booting but as soon as the os boot screen started to boot the fan stopped. As far as I could tell it doesn't come back on at all. I was then able to run it for 3 hours and then I turned it off.
When it shutsdown it is very hot where the heatsink is.
Is the fan bad even though it turns on at first or could it be something in the os? I found another fan but wann be sure before I buy it.