Recent content by lucasridge1727

My desktop is slowly dying after 7 years of hard work and an upgrade is due soon. I plan to either put my current Toshiba 3.5" 2TB HDD into the new build, which I plan to use the BitFenix Prodigy M case for, this meaning I can’t have fans on the bottom of the case as this is the only 3.5” mount...

I've used another power brick to see if it gives the laptop any life but not even the power LED's come on. The laptops original power brick has been tested on another laptop and it charges that one fine, so my laptop isn't willing to receive any power at all no matter what brick used.

Update: I opened the laptop up and disconnected the battery to see if I could boot just from the mains using the AC adapter, sadly still nothing. Tried to test the voltage across the battery connections and got 0V? Feel as if even if the battery is dead I should have some sort of voltage, but...

So my laptop was working perfectly fine up until I checked in yesterday morning to find out it isn't charging and won't turn on, there are no indication LED's on the laptop lighting up too. So I check the laptop charger voltages to check that it's working and I'm getting 19v as expected, so the...