Help with LAN???

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January 6th, 2009, 01:08 PM
bostonflunkie

Help with LAN???

I have been using Acer Aspire 5672 notebook for 3 years. It's ATI Radeon X1400 died on me. No video output, I have tried turning on the screen through keyboard as well as external monitor output. Nothing!
It starts up fine(I can hear the win xp sound). I need some files off the hd, file sharing is not enabled(of course!) I can connect thru lan and access shared folder. How do I access the not shared folder? Or how can I enable hd sharing through keyboard, without the monitor? I have tried ftp as well. I know the MAC and the IP address!
Can someone help?
January 6th, 2009, 01:11 PM
NooNoo

Quickest way is to pull the drive.. and use a usb to laptop 2.5" drive adapter... but most laptops won't boot at all if the video card has gone... more likely to be the backlight or inverter on the screen....
January 6th, 2009, 01:40 PM
bostonflunkie

You mean 3.5" drive?

That is an excellent idea. I will try that. Thanks! I have made sure that there is no back light issues, it has an external monitor output and I have used it in the past but does not work now.
I don't know what does an inverter do to the laptop screen. I mean I know what's an inverter.
January 6th, 2009, 01:44 PM
NooNoo

With inverter and backlight issues you end up with a blank screen, but you can hear the computer working. If the video card died, it is most likely that it wouldn't start up at all.

No, I mean 2.5" drive... most notebooks have 2.5" drives. 3.5" drives go in a desktop as a rule.
January 6th, 2009, 01:50 PM
bostonflunkie

I will look into the 2.5" adapter as you suggested. It does boot up, I can hear it. The reason I am saying that it is video card issue is that a video frame froze while I was watching a movie on netflix, King Corn to be specific. The sound of the movie worked fine even after it froze. And I can access shared folder on the notebook via my desktop, so I don't know why it is booting up with the "dead" video card.
Thanks for the help!
January 6th, 2009, 02:38 PM
MobilePCPhysician

shut it down, restart it and hit the f8 key repeatedly once a second until you see the menu screen. Can you see the screen? Can you see any text as it starts up?
January 6th, 2009, 02:45 PM
bostonflunkie

No I do not see anything on the screen. It seems to be off, no power! Is there any way to enable hd sharing in the "dark" with the keyboard?
January 6th, 2009, 02:56 PM
MobilePCPhysician

No. Pull the drive as NooNoo said.
January 6th, 2009, 03:03 PM
bostonflunkie

Hey Doc, anyway you could send me a link from where I can buy this adapter?
Thanks!
January 6th, 2009, 03:07 PM
MobilePCPhysician

Have you tried remote desktop connection?

http://www.microcenter.com/at_the_stores/cambridge.html
January 6th, 2009, 04:04 PM
bostonflunkie

No I have not tried remote connection, yet. I believe that I had disabled it on the laptop.
I needed the link to that part, not the store url!
January 6th, 2009, 05:06 PM
NooNoo

this is what you are looking for this is pretty similar to that which I use. You don't need the power on when doing a 2.5" drive and the rest of the kit is useful for turning any SATA or ide drive into a usb drive.
January 6th, 2009, 06:47 PM
CCT

I know sometimes I drift far and wide, but did you try an external monitor switch or is it definitely the vid card not the LCD?
January 7th, 2009, 05:22 AM
NooNoo

Quote:

Originally Posted by OMGmissinglink

With a bad lappy lid actuator switch you won't display any graphic's either through the LCD or Rear VGA connector.

These are the most over looked diagnostic in modern lappy displays.

True - do check the lid actuator!
January 7th, 2009, 08:39 AM
bostonflunkie

Quote:

Originally Posted by NooNoo

this is what you are looking for this is pretty similar to that which I use. You don't need the power on when doing a 2.5" drive and the rest of the kit is useful for turning any SATA or ide drive into a usb drive.

Thanks NooNoo!
January 7th, 2009, 09:17 AM
MobilePCPhysician

Quote:

Originally Posted by bostonflunkie

No I have not tried remote connection, yet. I believe that I had disabled it on the laptop.

Try this to enable Remote Desktop on the laptop: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...2000vista2008/
January 18th, 2009, 02:40 PM
bostonflunkie

Found a loose flex cable under the hd!

I did retrieve the data from the HD, but when I pulled the drive I noticed a flex cable not connected to anything, it seemed like a power cable for IDE hd, mine is SATA, but I am not sure. I contacted the Acer tech support to see if I can find component layout somewhere to no avail.
I was wondering if someone can confirm this, where does this Flex cable connects to, here, Its an Acer--Aspire 5672 with 100G hd, 1 G memory and ATI Radeon X1400.
Thanks!
January 18th, 2009, 04:34 PM
NooNoo

Can you take a picture and post it?