Acer Aspire V5-572 - Battery Reset Pinhole

Yep-it worked exactly as suggested. Sharp end of a small safety pin and bobs your uncle.

Thanks again. Was worried that it could be something worse.

Russ

Ok, it works perfectly..., thank you to your suggest.

My Acer Aspire ES1-512-C08J, did not accept anythink from keyboard to input password at start of windows 10, but in Bios setup did it works.

No solutions to change keyboard, or reset bios to default configuration, but only when i pushed in the pinhole reset switch battery on back laptop, while laptop was on, and it immediatly drops down switch off, and when i restart laptop from normal push button power on, all works another time ok.....

Sorry for my bad english...

Well the same thing happened me, i pushed around 15 seconds, without connected to energy, and iwas go to sleep, i woke up and i reconnect the energy and press power button and works ok, i turned off with normal windows 10 process, and now it´s again the same problem, any suggestion?

My Acer E5-731 was dead and just by doing this (without the charger plugged in ) it solved it. nice!

Thank you!!!

It worked!!

Phew , I thought I had lost my Laptop.

Thanks!!!

The battery cell may have some unbalance. This i planned obsolescence. Manufacturer omit a proper balance circuit in the battery so over time the unbalance get bigger en the effective useable capacity will be reduced dramatically by the safety circuitry in the battery. This does not mean the cells are bad. You need to balance the cells, but this requires opening the battery, soldering a balance connector to the individual cells and using a balance charger. No manufacturer will tell you this nor will they admit it. I just reconditioned my battery laptop myself and it's still going strong after 3 years.

Holy wow. The actual bloody service manual for 481PT makes no mention of this pinhole. I thought I shorted the battery and almost ended up ordering a new one (and a new MB for good measure). So yeah, guys, if your Acer M5 says it has a battery but refuses to work without AC, putting a stupid pin in the stupid hole while on AC power for 4 seconds solves the problem. For me, at least.

Will acer aspire R11, note book , work without a battery? The jacky!

It didn't work for me. It comes to a screen where it says "automatic repair, your pc did not start correctly". I've restarted it and it goes to a blank screen and the fan keeps kicking on, I've tried to push and hold the reset button and it didn't work. I've pulled the battery out and it didn't work. Help.

thank u so much it work !

Did not work for me. When I reconnected the A/C power and pressed the power button, one of the blue lights on the front flashed 5 times and quit. No sign of life.

Did not work for me. My wife’s Aspire V simply died. When I reconnect the A/C power and press the power button, one of the blue lights on the front flashes 5 times and stops. No sign of life.

Happen to mine today , I was so scare to have lost my PC, only 7 months old !!

So I did the pin hole thing and VOILA !! back to work , every thing came back up !!

Great !! just happen to me today, got to work 7:30 Try to turn on my PC, nothing silence , no fan no moden ,over an hour trying to see what had happen , did not know about the pin hole, saw the battery symbol paper clip in , and VOILA !! back on !!

Works,

Hi - please describe how the laptop should be at the time when you hit the rest button:

- should it be plugged in and connected to power? or plug out?

- should the computer be powered on or off?

Thank you so much sir.

by the way, the laptop had lcd problem and was replaced a week ago. Smooth operation for 3 days then didnt used for 4 days due to travel. On the 7th day, smooth operation until it just turn off on its own. Tried turning it on without ac, no response. With ac, turned on for a second and when power button pressed again, it wont turn on. Unplug and plug ac and turned on only for a second. By the way, your instruction solved it, im just asking if you have info about the cause. Running the laptop at the moment. Waiting if it reoccur and hoping that it wont happen again. Cheers and God Bless

Once again, it always work but the problem also reoccurs. Its like, the laptop seems to work smoothly. After an hour or two, suddenly it dies. Cant be turned on again without ac, turned on with ac for a second then dies. Have to pin the battery reset button again and again during this scenario. Any advice?

I did the pinhole reset, but after that it did not turn on without the charger. how will I fix this? please help me

i think i damaged the botton, i used a pin to poke it , after checking it inside a notice that the botton is damage is there any fix on it?

Couldn’t find it on my V3-571g

Thanks Worked for me

Brill advice.worked no sooner had i popped the pin in.was losing my head thinking I was going to have to buy new one,but no a simple easy answer was a pin.lol thank so much.

Mazza

When I insert a pin over there, instead of a proper click, it feels like the pin is scratching a surface. Is the pinhole's switch not working? I don't know. Kindly help.

I have a black screen but blue light comes on , I tried with a pin to reset the battery and I pieced a tiny hole ? today is not my day!!

Now the blue light wont even come on unless charger is plugged in , any suggestions please? ???

The pinhole is so small I cannot get a paper clip into it

hmm well I did that, and now instead of the device just won’t power on at all. a pretty bad problem somehow got…worse.

Hi, Does a battery reset disconnect the power from the battery until the AC power supply is reconnected?

I wish to replace the screen without stripping it down to disconnect the battery.

For those whose laptops are not working for pressing it for 4 seconds ..please follow the steps that i had explained below because i chat with the acer care and they told me these steps which helps me to fixed my acer aspire 7

Step 1 :- remove charger from the laptop

Step 2:- press the power button for 30 seconds

Step 3:- press the pin hole button for 25 seconds with the help of a paper clip or sim ejector tool .

Step 4 :- plug in the charger in the laptop and let it charge for 1 hour after 1 hour power on the laptop .....and boom your laptop will start working .....this trick will 100% work as this fixed my laptop....

Help...I need to erase everything on my Acer aspire e15 laptop. My mother-in law gave it to my kids to use for school since they broke their old one. I tried holding Alt & f10 at same time & hit power button. I follow correct prompts to factory reset. It gets as far as 44% complete & says there is a problem. The only option there is to click "cancel". I need to get this laptop working.....I'm not super tech savvy...but I can follow directions good...someone plz help....

Can a reset be done while completely dead? My Acer battery doesn't seem to be holding any charge ...

Merci infiniment pour l'astuce, mon pc acer commence à charger. Merci beaucoup

How do i fix my laptop its not gonna work. There is critical low battery. Please respect comment.