<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Nick,<br>Have you checked that mains power is getting to the adapter? Mains socket could be pitted or wire broken.<br>Bill<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 26/9/12, Nick <i><durham-lug@njw.me.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Nick <durham-lug@njw.me.uk><br>Subject: [Durham] Slightly OT: temperamental power adaptor<br>To: nelug@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Wednesday, 26 September, 2012, 15:43<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi,<br><br>I'm the guy who was enthusiastic about meeting everyone a few months <br>ago, and since actually moving to Durham I've totally failed to make <br>it to any meetings. Sorry about that!<br><br>Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any advice regarding my <br>laptop. It isn't directly Linux related, but it's close enough that <br>hopefully
you can forgive me.<br><br>My power adapter has recently started randomly turning off for a few <br>hours. After much worried wiggling, turning on and off again, etc, <br>it then will turn back on of its own accord. I wondered whether it <br>was overheating, but it runs quite cool. Anybody have any advice <br>(other than the obvious "buy a new one")? Has anybody taken a power <br>adapter apart to ensure any loose connections are resoldered? I'm <br>slightly wary of doing that, having had a bad encounter with taking <br>apart a PC power supply in the past (don't ask!), but if it's likely <br>to be a case of a loose wire, I'd rather fix it than buy a whole new <br>one.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Nick<br><br>P.S. When I say the adapter 'turns off', I mean the LED goes off, <br>and it stops providing power to the laptop.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Durham mailing list - <a
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