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Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead.

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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. 
> 
> I bought from Amazon a renwed Dell laptop about 4 yeears old.  It came
> on Dec 12.  I used it for about an hour and it was fine.  the charger
> charged.  I coudl dl and install Firefox. I could use an external mouse.
> A few other things worked. 
> 
> Then I got sick from something the doctor did to me on Dec. 11 and
> didn't have the strength to work on it until last tonight. The battery
> still had almost all its charge an dit started right up. I plugged in
> the ext. mouse and an ext keyboard.  Then I wanted to go upstairs for a
> hub, to plug in external drive.   I slept it, and notice that it woke up
> when I opened the lid, then the screen went dark again when I closed the
> lid, without touching any keys either time. 
> 
> Left the charger plugged in for 3 or 4 hours.  The light on the included
> charger was on. There are no lights on the laptop to tell when it's
> charging or on, or when caps/num/scroll lock are on. When I came
> downstairs and plugged in the hub and tried to start it, it's totally
> dead.  I unplugged all the usb things and it's still dead. 

  Is the charger plug on the laptop side a USB-C plug or a 'old'-style
barrel connector. If the latter, I have yet to see a DC barrel port on a
laptop, which does not have a small LED next to the port.

  Same for LEDs on the keyboard. At minimum, there's a LED in/near the
power button and probably several others in, or next to, some keys.

  So look for these LEDs, even if they are unlit. Normally they are just
tiny, about 1mm, holes.

  If there are LEDs, but none of them are lit, and the light of the charger
itself is on, I would suspect a bad cable/connection from the charger to
the laptop or indeed a totally dead laptop.

> I can get the model number tomorrow moring, but does what I've said give
> any ideas?   And are Amazon refurbs guaranteed for 2 months? :-(  
> 
> The only thing I added to the mix today was the hub and the ext drive.
> The ext drive I've used before, including 2 days ago on the other pc.
> Could a bad hub do this much damage? 

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My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead.  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 03:59 -0500
  Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-26 05:52 -0500
    Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 11:03 -0500
      Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 16:19 +0000
        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. SOLVED, or Problem went away.  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-02 18:22 -0400
      Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2025-01-26 11:07 -0800
  Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 15:34 +0000
    Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-26 11:11 -0500
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        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-26 16:17 -0500
          Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-28 10:24 -0500
            Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-28 16:15 -0500
        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-02 18:21 -0400
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