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"AC Power Adapter Not Determined" , and Power Adapter Won't Work
My computer recently displayed a "AC Power Adapter is not determined." message. I did not change anything, all I did was go to a friend's house and plug it in and it appeared there. Taking out battery and holding down power for 10 sec won't work. It appears everytime, and my battery is slowly being drained. Help!
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Inappropriate?Firdavs,
Well, seeing as you are not afraid to "dig in" to the problem; Somewhere on the internet I found a pictorial on how to short out the circuit that fails which tells your laptop (erroneously) that you have the wrong power supply hooked up.
The fix was quite involved and I did not want to do major surgery on a 5 day old Studio XPS, so I never followed up.
I will look around and if I find it, I’ll post the link in this thread.
Regards,
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Inappropriate?Oh, By The Way. . .
I tried the Quick-Set trick.
I tried the flash the BIOS trick.
The replace the power supply trick.
The replace the battery trick.
The tear everything apart and inspect for loose or damaged power connector trick.
And the charge a known good battery with another laptop then transfer it to my ill Studio XPS trick.
Nothing worked. Nothing!
I had to install a refurbished mother board in my brand new, pristine XPS laptop. Yeah, that hurt.
Still looking for that article on doing surgery on the motherboard to work around the problem.
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Inappropriate?Dell sucks
I have an XPS M1730 that did this just before the warranty expired - Dell didn't want to know and now my sons Studio 17 has done the same thing one week out of warranty.
Dell have a problem tht they are not willing to sort out, they are the worst company for customer service and shoddy products that I have ever known.
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Inappropriate?Thank you electrojake789
It is not that i am not afraid of "dig in" thing, but it is for now my only choice. I have downloaded the tech manual of my laptop from dell's site, but it is not shown in detail the parts of the motherboard. So if you can find that pictorial and post the link of it, i would be very thankful
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Inappropriate?maybe this is what you are looking for:
http://www.laptop-junction.com/toast/...
http://www.laptops-battery.co.uk/blog... -
Inappropriate?Bingo!
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the links electorjake789. I will certainly check them2 Comments
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This solves the problem
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Actually it was "Sonja" that saved us.
Thank You sonja.
Nice work! -
Actually it was "Sonja" that saved us.
Thank You sonja.
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Inappropriate?ups. Thank you sonja
At least i could solve one part of the problem, that is the "system will operate slowly" thing. I found a solution from a different forum. It is the Noteboke Hardaware Control program. It makes the laptop operate in maximum capacity.
So right now the laptop is working ok, but the problem with charging still exists... -
Inappropriate?No problem ;-) it is actually the second time I post these links- this is not the best forum to be following a thread..
Well anyways. If you deside to take your machine apart, would you consider to video filme it and then upload it on youtube?
regards Sonja Lea -
Inappropriate?well i have already done it... yesterday, did not help.
Today, i plugged my friend's old dell ac adapter, which outputs 90 watt, it worked :) , it was such a relief for me.... cant tell
My laptop actually needed 65 watt, and that is what my ac adapter outputs. Right now i am planning to show my ac adapater to the master, and would want him to change the output to about 80 watts. If it cant be done, i am going to buy a new adapter but with more than 65 watt output, may be 80 watt one.
