October 8, 2004 7:36 AM PDT
Millions of Dell power adapters recalled
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Dell sold the adapters with its Latitude, Inspiron and Precision series of computers, as well as separately. Delta Electronics, based in Taipei, Taiwan, manufactured them.
As part of the recall, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission advised consumers who suspect they have one of the adapters to contact the company. Dell will send free replacements to customers with the recalled adapters.
The company has faced problems with its power adapters before. In July, Dell offered to replace power adapter cords sold with some 38,000 notebooks. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Mobility Electronics manufactured that product.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 990,000 units were recalled. But a Dell representative said that figure referred only to the adapters sold to consumers in the United States. It did not include the additional 1.91 million units sold to U.S. businesses or the other 1.5 million units sold to customers outside the United States.
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recalled batteries earlier that were defective. Does anyone know
if the defective batteries and defective power adapter could in
any way have been responsible for the "premature" (just out of
warranty) failure of my motherboard and what can be done short
of a $700 replacement
I don't know about the battery and powercord problems, but I too thought my motherboard was fried...until I found out it was just the powercord jack at the back inside of my laptop.
I found a place online that sold me the jack for around $10, then took it to a local shop and they soldered it on for me and removed the old one for about $69; laptop works fine now! I'm just really careful to hold something under my laptop on my lap, or use it on a table, so the power cord no longer hangs and "stresses" the jack.
Hope this got to so you can try and see if that was the issue before chucking your laptop!
thanks