On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:51:27PM +0100, godo wrote: > On 2011-03-04 21:19, Freeman wrote: > >(Possibly an exaggeration.) > > > >However I have never had a laptop make sounds I didn't understand. And, if > >the harddrive began making extra noises, I knew to devote all remaining > >session time to updating backups. > > > >But my Inspiron 1721 makes weird noises. > > > >1. Mystery Beep > > Does it sound like bios beep? > > Maybe have some power problems. > > Can you check are cables and connectors inside laptop loose? > I'm notice that sometimes just a gentle push without hearing any > click or feel it can fix things. > > Is it power adapter functional? Can you measure power with > multimeter and twist around jack that entering in laptop?
Thanks Goran. That sounds really close. These Dells have given me awful problems with power supplies. I've owned 5 Dell laptops, and replaced 4 PA-10 and PA-12 power supplies. Currently I am minus one power supply, running at reduced capacity on another and only have one fully functional power supply. So that will equal 6 replacement power supplies over 5 notebooks, if my remaining good power supply stays at 100%. I will check cables when I next get time to open it. -- Regards, Freeman _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
