[PLUG] Possible fried laptop...

[Matt McKenzie]

It sounds like you may have done this, but have you done the old trick of:

Remove battery
Unplug AC
Wait 10-15 seconds
Plug in AC
Try to power up
Replace battery

?

Or, leave it plugged in, make sure charging light is on (sounds like it may
be charging, with the light flashing),
let battery charge up for a while (10-15 minutes at least), and then try
again.  If the battery is completely dead, some laptops won't power up at
all, regardless of AC plugged in or not.  As long as you are getting some
light activity there is a good chance you can resurrect it.

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Matt M.
LinuxKnight


On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Eitan Tsur <eitan.tsur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,  so I lost power for a couple hours today, and my laptop was on
> during the outage.  I shut it down, plugged it in, and waited until the
> power came back to use it again.  Since then the power has come back on,
> however the laptop will no longer POST, and the power light flashes.  This
> has never happened before, (light flashing or no POST condition,) and seems
> to be unaffected by being on wall power or not, with or without the battery
> installed.  If anyone has any thoughts on what could cause this sort of
> situation, please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> -Eitan-
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