On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:17:43 -0800 Erik Lane <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:46 PM, John Jason Jordan ><[email protected]>wrote: >> It's like some impending doom. The battery is fully charged, >> everything else seems to be working normally. I need suggestions for >> what could be causing this. >You say "The battery is fully charged," which says it's a laptop. I >have had issues with beeping when the power cord is getting worn out >and is jiggled, and on one laptop when the power jack was faulty and >not making good connection. Basically they would beep whenever it lost >AC power or got it back again. I don't know if this is the same for >all laptops, but at least for mine and my wife's, that's the most >common cause of any beeps. Aha! I think you may have hit the nail on the head here, although I can't prove it yet. On Thursday a replacement AC adapter for the laptop arrived. There is nothing wrong with the one that came with the laptop; I just wanted an extra so I wouldn't have to untangle the AC adapter from the mess of wires behind the laptop whenever I wanted to go somewhere with it. Thursday evening I plugged in the new adapter to see if it would work well. It seems to be working perfectly. But I can't prove that the problem is caused by the new adapter. I don't know any way to test it, other than plug it in and see if it works. And it seems to be working fine. Also, I have disconnected and reconnected the old adapter numerous times in the past, and the computer never bleeped at me when I did. And I plugged in the new adapter Thursday night, but the computer only started bleeping at me Friday night. Just now I checked the connection, and it is firmly plugged in all the way. The evidence against the new adapter is circumstantial, but we have hanged men on less. If the computer starts bleeping at me again I will reseat the adapter connection. I completely forgot about the new adapter, but now that you made me aware of it I will keep my eye on things to see if I can come with something that proves that the problem is in the new adapter. Thanks for the suggestion! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
