[PLUG] Possible fried laptop...

donkyhotay donkyhotay at verizon.net
Mon Dec 22 03:06:04 UTC 2008


Sounds pretty fried to me, was it plugged into a surge protector when 
the power went out?

Eitan Tsur 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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