Re: Acer Aspire 5672WLMi fails to power up

Thank you for posting. I just got a new AC adapter which is suppose to be an OEM part, hooked things up and as I expected pressing power reset did not produce any results - no lights, no fan - nothing but silence. I checked the voltage on the adapter which was 19 VDC. I started removing screws to expose the board as much as possible but got stuck after removing all the screws from the bottom of the chassis and back of the LCD lid. I'm not sure how to remove the keyboard and disconnect the LCD panel. I've removed few easy to get items like...

This laptop was used with the wrong AC adapter. Original AC adapter is lost. I tried powering up with bench PSU with 19 V DC but it was no go. The laptop was drawing something around .20 amps when I pressed the power reset which is obviously not enough to get anything going, no lights, no sound - no nothing.

On eBay I've seen the power jack and cable that plugs into the main board sold as a unit. Is it possible this jack & harness assembly has a power fuse included which may have burned out when a wrong AC adapter was used?

Any suggestions on how to trace the...