Acer Aspire 9300

[Amethyst]

This horrible thing was working fine for a while until it starting having the following problems.

- Overheating far too often, the GPU used to run at over 90 degrees which I dont think did it any favours, I managed to get it down to around 80 using a laptop cooling pad.

- Horizontal lines appear on the screen when I play games on the computer. They get quite intense at some points.

Just yesterday it decided not to turn on, once the power button is pressed the screen stays blank, some lights come on the keyboard and it emits 1 long beep, and 2 short beeps, then nothing happens.

Any clues?

Amethyst-

[cyberdyne]

I know this is an old thread but I thought this may help anyone with similar issue in the future.

If you disassemble the 9300 (and 9310, etc.) and remove the fan, you will find a (approx.) 2 in. x 2in. piece of thick, black, plastic-coated paper stuck to the inside of the laptop air intake grill !

I won't speculate as to why it is there but it wasn't put there by mistake........ it was cleanly glued into place at manufacture.

Remove this and your temperatures will drop by approx. 30 - 40% !

Hee's a photo of offending object:
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5448/dscf0001j.jpg

Hope this is helpfull to someone.