Solved! Did he melt his laptop? HAHAHA!

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Power supply is no good, or about to die...

Ran through the scenario again.... what could have happened.....?

Plugged, unplugged, checked connections, pushed buttons, etc...

Half jokingly, I rapped on the power supply a few times with my knuckles....

Power!

Yeah!!!!

He's of to the computer shop for a replacement...


Thanks...

"James E Middleton" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:eeWu7Z7JGHA.2248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In a panic I shot the last post off, with some logical assumptions.
>
> The laptop was running from a power cable when this happened.
>
> The battery was, and always is in the laptop, so it remains charged.
>
> He returned to the office about 3 hours after he started the encoding and 
> left.
>
> Running from a power supply, what shut the computer down?
>
> Did the computer overheat?
>
> If the battery in the computer is always there and charged, why no power?
>
> SO!!!!
>
> What if the power supply just died?
>
> Maybe it's a bad power supply?
>
> He left the office with the laptop running from the power supply (cable 
> and brick), the power supply dies, the laptop shifts to battery power, it 
> runs off the battery until it dies.
>
> No one is there to see a low batter warning, in which case we'd be able to 
> say, 'Hey, it's plugged in and the battery is going to die, power supply 
> must be dead!'
>
> We come back and the laptop is completely dead.
>
> No lights in the LCD panel, it's plugged in, the battery should be OK...
>
> Maybe the meltdown idea is a bit off; a machine should shut down before 
> that happens...
>
> For now, we'll keep our fingers crossed for a faulty power supply.
>
> Thanks for your response, we'll dig out the manual and look for some reset 
> procedures if that happens to be the case.
>
>
>
> "NewbieSupreme" <newbiesupreme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:c92dnVaryviREXzenZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> "James E Middleton" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
>> news:uA6$r66JGHA.744@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> Fujitsu - Biblo MG70J
>>>
>>> Centrino 1.7 RAM 512
>>>
>>> One of my co-workers was converting large .avi files to mpeg2 on his 
>>> laptop. Setup a 6GB .avi to encode and left the computer unattended for 
>>> a few hours.
>>>
>>> When he came back, the laptop was dead... still is for that matter.
>>>
>>> The battery that is in the computer is charged, power cable seems to be 
>>> OK, but no way to test it now.
>>>
>>> When we press 'power' nothing happens; no lights in the LCD, no HDD 
>>> spin, no beeps, nothing.
>>>
>>> Could the load from converting the .avi files overheated the computer?
>>>
>>> *Usually, when the encoding program is run, it causes the computer we 
>>> normally use, desktops with P4 2.8 to run at full load for hours at a 
>>> time.*
>>>
>>> Just seems coincidental, but I can't think of anything else...
>>>
>>
>> James:
>>
>> Was the laptop running from battery power for the conversion?  How do you 
>> know it's now charged?  Did you find that out by putting it in a 
>> different laptop?  Try putting a new battery in, or if you don't have 
>> one, try removing it and just using cable.  I've heard of the battery 
>> dying and needing to be removed and run straight from cable until 
>> replacement brick shows up.  This was a while ago, but the technology and 
>> route power follows might not have changed much.
>>
>> Any machine I know of built since '95 typically has some sort of 
>> emergency power down to shut everything off before actual harm comes to 
>> hardware in overheating scenarios.  Not all of them have the same 
>> procedure to reset, though.  Some need contact points on the mobo 
>> connected, some need CMOS battery taken out/put back in, some need jumper 
>> reset on mobo, blah blah. Check the manual for that laptop model for 
>> details of emergency shutdown, or whatever they might call it.  If the 
>> laptop has no details, try the manual of the motherboard (usually online 
>> at mfg. website somewhere).
>>
>> HTH
>>
>
> 


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