Inspiron 1520 Adapter Trouble =[

I'm afraid if you continue to see Dell in a positive light after reading all about their treatment of customers and poor quality products that fail just after warranty, both on here and the Internet in general, then you will be exercising self-delusion to an inexplicable extent. Your loyalty to Dell has only served to make them a big, powerful company that can afford to rip off customers as it is doing, forget about them after the warranty ends, and then prepare to deal with the fresh mugs. In brief, the loyalty isn't and won't be returned.

If your laptop is out of warranty, you'll be in the same position as me, with a defective laptop and no recourse. Dell have no interest as they keep reminding me my warranty has expired. I have no interest in warranties, only in equipment that is sold with stock faults, and made of poor quality parts not designed to last. I'm afraid you're most likely to have to buy a new adapter yourself, and inflate company profits some more. Oh, and then buy another maybe a year from now. Oh, and maybe a new one for your other laptop before long. Oh, and maybe new batteries and motherboards as they fail and you keep receiving messages like ac adapter cannot be determined and battery cannot be identified which can't be cured with new adapters or batteries.

Personally, I'd throw the Dells away as they fail and buy from someone else, anyone else, but not Dell ever again. Just think, you could have a laptop that runs perfectly from very cheap universal and compatible ac adapters, and that also runs from cheap compatible batteries. Imagine the freedom and money savings!