Help? My charger killed two laptops!
This is the laptop charger. I have two laptops that use the same charger. I watched a movie on one laptop on battery, then plugged it in and went to sleep. Got up in the morning and the laptop ...
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Escargot wrote:
Try booting the laptop, plugged in, with the battery removed.
Sadly, this did not work either.
strollin wrote:
Are you sure the power adapter is the right one for both laptops?
Pretty darn sure. The specs have worn off the chargers, but when they were new I checked carefully, and since then (several years) both computers have shared chargers contentedly.
Gene&Ginny wrote:
Laptop model numbers would help as well as the model numbers of the chargers. Are they both 18 volts DC?
They are ASUS netbooks. The primary is 1015PEM17U. I will see if I can get a model number off the other one in daylight. This stuff wears off.
SteveB wrote:
Did you check the output of the charger?
I can try. I will also try to see if it is stable, or varying. I don't know if it will HAVE any output if it is not plugged into a computer.
It could be coincidence that they both stopped at relatively the same time.
Could be. But my friend Bill Occam says he doesn't think so :).
Does the first computer show a boot screen or is it always blank? If black it could be the motherboard. If there is any indication of life it could be a bad HDD.
No boot screen, just some blinky lights on the case. No HDD or fan sound.
In that case you could try to boot with a Linux live cd. The tough part is getting one if you dont have a third computer.
I do have a third computer, but I have not used its CD drive in many years :). And the netbook would need an external CD drive -- which I have, and AFAIK it works too, but it's another variable. Do you think it's worth a try with no boot screen?
