My wife's laptop power connector stopped working recently. I ordered a generic replacement a couple of weeks ago. It worked fine for about 2 weeks, then stopped. No power light, no charging. I assumed I had a defective charger, ordered a new one and got an RMA for the defective one. The new one came in today. It doesn't work either.
If the battery goes bad I was assuming it would give some warning. The laptop is about 3 years old and battery life isn't what it was but a charge was still good for 1.5 hours or so. I wouldn't think it would go dead instantly. Even if it did go dead, I'm assuming it would still try to charge and the power light would come on.
Any thoughts?
If I can't get this thing up and running I will still need to pull the data off the hard drive. Laptops do use standard IDE connectors (its not new enough to be sata I don't guess) and typical power adapters, right?
If the battery goes bad I was assuming it would give some warning. The laptop is about 3 years old and battery life isn't what it was but a charge was still good for 1.5 hours or so. I wouldn't think it would go dead instantly. Even if it did go dead, I'm assuming it would still try to charge and the power light would come on.
Any thoughts?
If I can't get this thing up and running I will still need to pull the data off the hard drive. Laptops do use standard IDE connectors (its not new enough to be sata I don't guess) and typical power adapters, right?