My laptop just died as I came back from school. I took the battery out and had it unplugged. I waited a minute or so, in this time I pressed the power button to drain whatever energy was left in the circuitry and after I just flipped it back over and placed the battery back [...]
My AC adapter/charger gets very hot when using my laptop plugged into the wall outlet. In fact, I’m on my 3rd AC adapter. The others have smoked. The laptop battery will only last a few minutes if not on the charger. Is the battery causing this?
It’s hard to tell without testing the laptop with another [...]
It looks like my laptop getting power and charging the battery but when I go to turn it on the power light goes on for about 3 seconds the the unit turns back off again. Any ideas???
It’s a Toshiba Satellite P300.
It’s possible that there is a problem with the AC power adapter. Maybe the adapter [...]
I have an older IBM R40 Laptop with an AC adapter with and output of 16V, 4.5Amp. I ordered a replacement from Lenovo but it is a 20V output unit. Can I safely use this?
I wouldn’t use this adapter. If you are replacing the AC adapter, it’s very important to buy a new one with [...]
While showing a presentation a few days ago my laptop went into hibernating and shut down. AC plugged in. When attempted to power back on nothing happened. LED lights on front panel blink but power LED does not. My laptop is HP Pavillion dv5000.
Probably the power (AC) adapter is dead. I think your power adapter [...]
I have a Dell Inspiron 9100. Mine kept on shutting down randomly and eventually got worse. I got a laptop technician out and at first he thought it was overheating but it turned out to be the AC plug going into the back. Every time it moved around the laptop turns off. This implied that [...]
I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4284 laptop. It is not showing that it is connected to the power cord. When I jiggle the port it registers. It seems loose. It doesn’t have warranty. I took it in to best buy and they think my motherboard needs replaced. Please help if possible…
First of all, this problem [...]
I have a HP Pavilion zd7000, question is, I get no lights on when I plug in the a/c adapter. I tried without battery and still no lights whatsoever. I hope its not the motherboard, I will hate buying it and that not being the problem. How can I know if it’s the motherboard or [...]
I have a Toshiba Satellite A70 laptop. Picked it up on eBay without an AC adapter. I tried several adapters rated 19v as required but shy on the required amperage. I was using a 450watt one. I noticed it would charge the battery OK when the laptop was off but once in windows it would [...]
My Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook stopped charging when I would plug in the charger. Both when it was on and off. I normally could get it to charge by moving the position of the cord as it was plugged into the back of the computer. It got progressively harder to make it charge until just [...]
