Pull your battery, and if the AC light stays orange with no battery attached, you've got a bad DC-in (the socket inside the computer).
Sometimes a DC-in will discharge and reset itself if you let the computer sit without AC or battery power overnight. So if the light is still amber with no battery attached, disconnect AC and battery, let it sit overnight, and then plug in the AC tomorrow and see if anything is different. But if not, you either have a bad DC-in or a bad board. Obviously, swapping the DC-in is the first step when trying to determine which of the two it is.
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There is also a slight chance your AC adapter is bad, but 98% of the situations like I described it's going to be the DC-in.
Pull your battery, and if the AC light stays orange with no battery attached, you've got a bad DC-in port.
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Pull your battery, and if the AC light stays orange with no battery attached, you've got a bad DC-in (the socket inside the computer).
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Sometimes a DC-in will discharge and reset itself if you let the computer sit without AC or battery power overnight. So if the amber light stays on with no battery, disconnect AC and battery, and then plug in the AC tomorrow and see if anything is different. But if not, you either have a bad DC-in or a bad board. Obviously, swapping the DC-in is the first step when trying to determine which of the two it is.
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Sometimes a DC-in will discharge and reset itself if you let the computer sit without AC or battery power overnight. So if the light is still amber with no battery attached, disconnect AC and battery, let it sit overnight, and then plug in the AC tomorrow and see if anything is different. But if not, you either have a bad DC-in or a bad board. Obviously, swapping the DC-in is the first step when trying to determine which of the two it is.
Pull your battery, and if the AC light stays orange with no battery attached, you've got a bad DC-in port.
Sometimes a DC-in will discharge and reset itself if you let the computer sit without AC or battery power overnight. So if the amber light stays on with no battery, disconnect AC and battery, and then plug in the AC tomorrow and see if anything is different. But if not, you either have a bad DC-in or a bad board. Obviously, swapping the DC-in is the first step when trying to determine which of the two it is.