Dell Inspiron - Charger Sparking

Flesh Gorden

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 - 18 months old so the 1 yr warrenty is gone


Problem: Whenever I plug in the charger I normally see a blue static flash from the pins on the plug

I always plug it in with a Belkin Surge Cube

but even on that now there are black scortch marks on the pins :eek:



Model : LA65N S0-00 - 19.5V 1.5A

Dell did send me out a new one around a year ago - the one I had before was twice as bad


Anyone else have this problem?

R3al

I think that is quite common when attaching the charger while it is plugged into the mains electricity,

Soundman

Never really bothered looking for a solution myself but that happened to me a lot with my Dell Inspiron 6000 which is now 4-5 years old. Hasn't caused any problems that I have found.

Flesh Gorden

bloody scary though - especially when you hear those tales that static can fry everything inside your computer

that and the fact when it was under warrenty and i emailed about the first charger - dell sent out a new one without question - like it was something pretty serious

I had a similar problem with my Inspiron 6000 but only while I was living in one particular house. It was fine everywhere else so I'm guessing there was some problem with the sockets or electricity supply there.

JordanDC

Yes, I had the same problem with my Dell laptop, but I also found that it varied on location, what I recommend doing is to attach all cables to laptop and plug and then flick on the switch on the wall. That worked for me.

zilog_jones

Flesh Gorden wrote: »

bloody scary though - especially when you hear those tales that static can fry everything inside your computer

That's arcing, not static electricity. Are the sockets in your house earthed? I used to get it all the time plugging in anything in my old house which had pretty ancient electrics (big old round 3-pin sockets, some definately weren't earthed at all).