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

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On Tue, 1/28/2025 10:24 AM, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:17:33 -0500, Paul
> <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 1/26/2025 11:25 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>> 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).
>>>
> Hmmm. I've heard of that but I don't remember with what device. 
> 
>>> [...]
>>>
>>
>> it should be fine, no load. You would get 19.5V.
>> If you shorted it, it would give 0 and there would
>> be a spark (capacitor discharge).
>>
>> The results Micky is getting, suggest the adapter
>> is not all that happy.
>>
>> However, there is one other possibility. Some adapters
>> actually have three electrical contact points, and one
> 
> No, simple barrel plug.   A Dell. 
> 
> I have, but can't find, a universal adapter with 3 prong tips so that
> the adapter knows what voltage to put out, but the actual plug on the
> end of the tip is 2-contact. 
> 
>> of them is an "enable". If the adapter is that type, then
>> the contact with the actual power on it, won't be enabled
>> while the plug is sitting in air.
>>
>> I don't know the details of this, I was only told
>> of the possibility of that being present. Perhaps both
>> the jack and the barrel plug are larger than normal
>> for those. My laptop is only two contacts, and the
>> center contact, there is no room for any third option.

If it is a simple adapter it should have a stable voltage.
Barring any temporary short circuits you might apply.

   Paul

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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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