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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 05:55 PM
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Hey computer geniuses:
Edited on Thu Aug-25-05 05:55 PM by YellowRubberDuckie
My laptop is pissing me off. You know how there are three lights in the front, on for power, one to show it's charging or charged and one that shoes it's plugged in? Well if I move it at all when I have it plugged in it clicks off and goes to battery. :wtf: is that about?
Duckie
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 05:55 PM
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1. Yeah what?
What kind of laptop do you have?
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:01 PM
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8. Toshiba
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:07 PM
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15. I don't think the Toshiba automatically goes to the battery. Does this
happen only when the battery is fully charged or just anytime?
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blitzburgh55 Donating Member (320 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:12 PM
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16. Wiggle the power cord
Edited on Thu Aug-25-05 06:13 PM by blitzburgh55
around and see if you get the light. You'll probably find a spot that will keep the power cord working. I had to do this with my Toshiba until I got a new adapter. I don't roll the new one up like I did the old one and it's been fine.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 05:56 PM
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2. Have you checked your power management settings? n/t
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:02 PM
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9. This isn't a power management thing.
Already checked. I kinda know what I'm doing, but have ruled all the simple stuff out. Thanks though.
Melissa
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:06 PM
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14. Sorry YRDuckie
I'm used to dealing with my clients. :-)

I agree with the others... this sounds like a bad plug or jack or maybe a loose wire.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:12 PM
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17. It's ok...
I expect to have that happen. When I went to buy the thing, the sales guy was hilarious. He started out talking slow, until I asked him about RAM and a processor etc. Then he smiled said, thank god you're not dumb, and then went on with a his better presentation. LOL
Duckie
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 05:57 PM
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3. Sounds like a loose connection. More of a mechanical problem than
Edited on Thu Aug-25-05 05:58 PM by Jamastiene
an electronic one. I don't know how mechanically inclined you are, but it's probably a loose connection somewhere in the area where it plugs in, or maybe deeper inside the computer. If you are pretty sure you could take it apart and tighten up the connection, that'd probably do the trick. If not, don't move it, I guess.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 05:59 PM
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5. I was going to suggest that to. I've knocked the plug loose
a couple of times.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 05:59 PM
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6. i agree, maybe a loose wire in the laptop itself???
Could be a pain to fix.
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blitzburgh55 Donating Member (320 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 05:58 PM
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4. My Toshiba was doing that too
It ended up being a bad power cord.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:02 PM
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10. Welcome to DU!
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:00 PM
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7. Sounds like a bad adapter plug or socket.
I have a Powerbook I have to fiddle with similarly until the computer figures out the charger is actually plugged in.

Redstone
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:03 PM
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11. Goddammit, I was afraid of this...
Edited on Thu Aug-25-05 06:04 PM by YellowRubberDuckie
I've already had it serviced for this once. MOTHER FUCKER! (Not you. Just cursing in general.)
Duckie
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:13 PM
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18. go to radio shack
it's the power adapter, not the laptop
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:04 PM
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12. computer
It sounds like your wangdoozle chip is low on
its power emission test quadrant, that supplies
the computer with the immense amounts of triangular
electric subpolar database central processing unit.
It is connected to the fibre channel gig hard drive
that is very fragile when trying to fix the computer.
Usually people use their RAM/ROM to try and identify
the real reason for the computer failure that happens
after the SCSI port terminator explodes.

So that really Bytes



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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 06:05 PM
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13. No that's only for Macs.
:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:
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