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

From	Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead.
Date	2025-01-26 16:25 +0000
Organization	NOYB
Message-ID	<vn5r6t.127c.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink)
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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
[...]

> >  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.
> 
> It's supposed to be 19.5 volts but the highest number I could get from
> my VOM was 17v, and that quickly dropped, gradually or as low as 5!  Of
> course it was hard to hold the probe to the center pin, and i'm not
> building a jig just for this.  I'll see what the vendor says. 

  This is probably one for Paul (my electronics knowledge is limited and
slipping), but AFAIK, a laptop adapter will not supply the specified
voltage unless you draw some current from it, which your meter doesn't
do (well, only very little, not enough).

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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
      Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-26 16:25 +0000
        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
  Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-01-26 17:06 +0000
    Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead.  SOLVED micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-27 22:55 -0500
      Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. SOLVED Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-27 23:42 -0500
        Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. SOLVED Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-28 01:13 -0500
  Re: My new-to-me renewed laptop is dead. Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-01-28 18:44 -0600

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