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Amihisss · 11-02-2008, 07:54 PM

Hello all,

I've been having a reoccuring problem with my year and a half old Gateway laptop. (I got it sometime in May 07.)

The damned thing's been going through power cords as fast as House pops painkillers! It's gone through three power cords in the past six months!

It had it's own fully functional one for a year, but a minute tear caused that one to stop working completely; then a bought a Universal cord from Best Buy which worked swimmingly for, oh, about four months - but it had this problem of, whenever it wasn't in a -just right- positioning, it would stop feeding my computer power until it FINALLY died.

Then, about a month and a half ago, I bought a new power cord that worked beautifully for the first few weeks, but it was starting to have the same problems that my old one did, and so now I'm begining to question whether or not it's my actual power cord, or the power modual.

Now, the laptop, when connected, will just kind of sputter a bit, the little purple light will flash a few times, wink in and out, then it just totally died about two hours ago. Though I have a very small percentage of power left.

I'm absolutely petrified that it's something internally wrong with my laptop; if it is, I really don't have the funds to pay for it. : / And I'm too chicken to open it up and take a peek for myself; I don't know my way around the hardware of a notebook, or a desktop for that matter.

Please, any advice or help AT ALL would be VERY much appreciated!! This has been my baby for quite a long time, and I don't want to loose it!

11-02-2008, 07:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
Amihisss Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4 OS: Vista	Help! Gone Through Three Power Cords in 6 Months! Hello all, I've been having a reoccuring problem with my year and a half old Gateway laptop. (I got it sometime in May 07.) The damned thing's been going through power cords as fast as House pops painkillers! It's gone through three power cords in the past six months! It had it's own fully functional one for a year, but a minute tear caused that one to stop working completely; then a bought a Universal cord from Best Buy which worked swimmingly for, oh, about four months - but it had this problem of, whenever it wasn't in a -just right- positioning, it would stop feeding my computer power until it FINALLY died. Then, about a month and a half ago, I bought a new power cord that worked beautifully for the first few weeks, but it was starting to have the same problems that my old one did, and so now I'm begining to question whether or not it's my actual power cord, or the power modual. Now, the laptop, when connected, will just kind of sputter a bit, the little purple light will flash a few times, wink in and out, then it just totally died about two hours ago. Though I have a very small percentage of power left. I'm absolutely petrified that it's something internally wrong with my laptop; if it is, I really don't have the funds to pay for it. : / And I'm too chicken to open it up and take a peek for myself; I don't know my way around the hardware of a notebook, or a desktop for that matter. Please, any advice or help AT ALL would be VERY much appreciated!! This has been my baby for quite a long time, and I don't want to loose it!