When I plug in my ac adapter into my computer to charge it the green light turns off and won't charge my computer. My sister has the exact same computer, model, etc. so I took my battery and plugged my ac adapter into her computer and it totally works fine, and I put her battery and used her ac adapter and the green light still turns off. So I know that it's not my battery and not my ac adapter. I'm not sure exactly what it is. It might be where you connect the ac adapter to the computer. It maybe fried or something I don't know. My computer has had a virus problem before and if you look at my ac adapter it has duck tape in numerous places to hold it together cause one of dogs chewed on it a few years ago. My question is what could it be? and How much is this going to cost? Should I just get a new computer?
Hi bro what u need to do is ... understand when u plug in the ac adapter the light on the ac adapter goes off and whne u unhoook it it comes on .. right there is a possible static charge in the mobo bcoz of which the ac current is nt able to flo on thru the wires to the motherboard .. what u can do is turn ur laptop off completely unhook the ac adpter and take off the battery as well press the power button for 15 sec press and hold it do this xcersice .. hook every thing up and try to charge the battery again it should work .....second possible thing can be may be the connectors on the mobo can be bad on the pin in the prong on the ac adpter must be twisted ,,, so check for that as well ...if still no go then either problem with the onboard power connector on mother board or the whole mother board power aseembly IE replace the mobo ....
cheers
Hi there.
See if the laptop works on AC power only, take the battery out, plug in your power supply and turn it on, then please post back
Problem is not ac pwr adapter.....I have 3 of them and each results in same problem.....
It is a faulty motherboard, if u plug in the adapter and the light goes off, and u have already tested the battery and pulled it, with the same result, the ac adapter light shutting off, u have a faulty motherboard, very common problem in the dell series motherboards, look and ebay and hope for the best or if u are good with circiutry, u can trace the issue or bad circuit and replace it
Probably the motherboard took a shock when the faulty (or almost faulty) AC adapter was plugged in. Dell's do not seem to have much tolerance for spikes and sparks.
Your problem is the ac power adapter.
The socket the thing that the power supply plugs in to.
It can be replaced, if you are good at soldering.
They are on ebay for about $10.
Just search power adapter, with your model number.
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Hey leecom72, I tried that and it didn't work. The green light still when off when I took the battery out. Any other clever solutions?
Hi, I have the same problem. Have you got yours fixed? If so let me know what was the problem and how much did it cost you?
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