DW's laptop DEAD DEAD DEAD then alive?
Yesterday her machine was totally unresponsive first thing in the morning. It was plugged in - I checked the power brick and it was putting out 20V (spec'd at 19.75V) so it wasn't that. I pulled the battery and tried the system w/o a battery. Put the battery back in - nothing. Pulled out wifi and mouse dongles - nothing. Did the reset procedure recommended by Dell - nothing. I figured it was dead Jim.
I left it for 3 hours and went out. When I came back the machine resumed her previous session as if nothing had happened. What the ...?
I've run full diagnostics and everything passes. I've done extra backups just in case.
The only thing I can guess is that even though the laptop was plugged in, maybe it wasn't charging and the battery went very dead. Maybe all the wiggling and plugging and unplugging of the power brick started it charging but there wasn't enough juice to run the machine until the battery came up a bit.
It's fine now but we're wondering if we should bite the bullet and buy a new one now. It would be more convenient for us to wait until we're home at the end of April.
I know what you're going to say though: it's a 7 year-old Latitude 1545 - replace it now. She likes the look of the Dell Inspiron 7000 with 6th gen i5 processor.
Any thoughts on why it was dead then alive? Hey, maybe it was because I updated it to Windows 10 a week ago. W10 is being blamed for everything else so why not this too? :)
I left it for 3 hours and went out. When I came back the machine resumed her previous session as if nothing had happened. What the ...?
I've run full diagnostics and everything passes. I've done extra backups just in case.
The only thing I can guess is that even though the laptop was plugged in, maybe it wasn't charging and the battery went very dead. Maybe all the wiggling and plugging and unplugging of the power brick started it charging but there wasn't enough juice to run the machine until the battery came up a bit.
It's fine now but we're wondering if we should bite the bullet and buy a new one now. It would be more convenient for us to wait until we're home at the end of April.
I know what you're going to say though: it's a 7 year-old Latitude 1545 - replace it now. She likes the look of the Dell Inspiron 7000 with 6th gen i5 processor.
Any thoughts on why it was dead then alive? Hey, maybe it was because I updated it to Windows 10 a week ago. W10 is being blamed for everything else so why not this too? :)
