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Thread Author: borasport Replies: 9
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New Tue 5 Oct 10 19:21 
 laptop suddenly died - borasport
Toshiba Satellite Pro L40, no response when turned on i.e. no lights at all.
If had the fuse out of the plug on the power supply and it is not that

any ideas ?
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New Tue 5 Oct 10 20:00 
 laptop suddenly died - R.P.
Any volts coming out of the supply end of the power supply lead ?

The power supply socket failed on my much abused Gateway - cost me 70 notes to fix it.
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New Tue 5 Oct 10 20:30 
 laptop suddenly died - borasport
I'll check that later - time to go quizzing now.

Laptop currently charging on swmbo's power supply
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New Tue 5 Oct 10 20:37 
 laptop suddenly died - RattleandSmoke

Remove the battery, a faulty batter sometimes cuts of the PSU in order to avoid a fire.

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New Tue 5 Oct 10 20:41 
 laptop suddenly died - Bellboy
i bet theres lots of dodgy computer repairers tell customers they are beyond economical repair but they can dispose of the laptop for them under the wee convention at no charge only for them to reappear on sundays boot salewith a new battery
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;-)
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New Tue 5 Oct 10 20:45 
 laptop suddenly died - RattleandSmoke
Never even thought of that. I also never take old computers away they cost far too much to get rid off.

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New Tue 5 Oct 10 20:49 
 laptop suddenly died - Runfer D'Hills
The propensity to improve profits occurs when preparation of script meets opportunity to confuse the customer Rattle ! Not that you would of course, only kidding !
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New Wed 6 Oct 10 07:23 
 laptop suddenly died - Dog
>>i bet theres lots of dodgy computer repairers tell customers they are beyond economical repair<<

I've known a fair few cars deemed beyond economical repair only to miraculously be repaired, taxed & mot'd.
Don't suppose that can happen though these days.
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New Wed 6 Oct 10 11:44 
 laptop suddenly died - borasport
The battery is brand new, genuine toshiba replacement (*), delivered, charged and drained yesterday afternoon - it is after plugging it in to recharge the drained battery that the power supply blew. The laptop istelf is fine and will run off other power supplies

(* - at a cost of £100, but the boss was insistent it was only worth buying genuine toyota batteries !!)
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New Mon 11 Oct 10 10:50 
 laptop suddenly died - J Bonington Jagworth
Well, if you will put a Toyota battery in a Toshiba.. :-)

Does the battery have any 'health' LED's?
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