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Power Surge To Laptop!

  • 08-12-2012 8:28pm
    #1
    Gingko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 532 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks! Father was playing around with the mains and it resulted in a power break / surge to laptop.

    The connection lead is ok and when I put another battery into laptop it will not turn on. Is it the motherboard or something else? No lights, no fan nothing!

    Someone mentioned it has gone into "shut down"?

    HELP!!!! :confused:


Comments

  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Sorry, but your laptop is dead. You might be able to remove the hard drive and recover data, but you are not likely to get it to boot again. Since the other battery wouldn't even power it that rules out any possibility it only burned out the power adapter.

    How do you feel about getting your father to buy a new one..


  • #3
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Possibly just an internal fuse blown?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #4
    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    Overheal wrote: »
    Sorry, but your laptop is dead. You might be able to remove the hard drive and recover data, but you are not likely to get it to boot again. Since the other battery wouldn't even power it that rules out any possibility it only burned out the power adapter.

    How do you feel about getting your father to buy a new one..

    not necessarily... laptop chargers are designed to take a surge or blow to protect the laptop... his charger maybe be blown and thus unable to charge his battery... take it to a laptop repair shop and have them test it with one of their chargers before throwing the laptop in the bin....

    if the charger is fine then op will just need to replace the motherboard.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Freddy Smelly wrote: »
    not necessarily... laptop chargers are designed to take a surge or blow to protect the laptop... his charger maybe be blown and thus unable to charge his battery... take it to a laptop repair shop and have them test it with one of their chargers before throwing the laptop in the bin....

    if the charger is fine then op will just need to replace the motherboard.
    Replacing a laptop motherboard is pretty much a write-off scenario. The board is usually ridiculously expensive, and since you're swapping the original board out of warranty you technically need to buy a new Windows licence too if your Windows is an OEM version.


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