Hey computer geniuses:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

My laptop is pissing me off. You know how there are three lights in the front, on for power, one to show it's charging or charged and one that shoes it's plugged in? Well if I move it at all when I have it plugged in it clicks off and goes to battery. :wtf: is that about?
Duckie

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Yeah what?

What kind of laptop do you have?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. Toshiba

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. I don't think the Toshiba automatically goes to the battery. Does this

happen only when the battery is fully charged or just anytime?

[blitzburgh55]

16. Wiggle the power cord

around and see if you get the light. You'll probably find a spot that will keep the power cord working. I had to do this with my Toshiba until I got a new adapter. I don't roll the new one up like I did the old one and it's been fine.

[salvorhardin]

2. Have you checked your power management settings? n/t

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. This isn't a power management thing.

Already checked. I kinda know what I'm doing, but have ruled all the simple stuff out. Thanks though.
Melissa

[salvorhardin]

14. Sorry YRDuckie

I'm used to dealing with my clients. :-)

I agree with the others... this sounds like a bad plug or jack or maybe a loose wire.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. It's ok...

I expect to have that happen. When I went to buy the thing, the sales guy was hilarious. He started out talking slow, until I asked him about RAM and a processor etc. Then he smiled said, thank god you're not dumb, and then went on with a his better presentation. LOL
Duckie

[Jamastiene]

3. Sounds like a loose connection. More of a mechanical problem than

an electronic one. I don't know how mechanically inclined you are, but it's probably a loose connection somewhere in the area where it plugs in, or maybe deeper inside the computer. If you are pretty sure you could take it apart and tighten up the connection, that'd probably do the trick. If not, don't move it, I guess.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. I was going to suggest that to. I've knocked the plug loose

a couple of times.

[LSK]

6. i agree, maybe a loose wire in the laptop itself???

Could be a pain to fix.

[blitzburgh55]

4. My Toshiba was doing that too

It ended up being a bad power cord.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. Welcome to DU!

[Redstone]

7. Sounds like a bad adapter plug or socket.

I have a Powerbook I have to fiddle with similarly until the computer figures out the charger is actually plugged in.

Redstone

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. Goddammit, I was afraid of this...

I've already had it serviced for this once. MOTHER FUCKER! (Not you. Just cursing in general.)
Duckie

[DS1]

18. go to radio shack

it's the power adapter, not the laptop

[Parche]

12. computer

It sounds like your wangdoozle chip is low on
its power emission test quadrant, that supplies
the computer with the immense amounts of triangular
electric subpolar database central processing unit.
It is connected to the fibre channel gig hard drive
that is very fragile when trying to fix the computer.
Usually people use their RAM/ROM to try and identify
the real reason for the computer failure that happens
after the SCSI port terminator explodes.

So that really Bytes

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. No that's only for Macs.

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