Recent content by phoule0

Thank you for your time, and solution, hang-the-9. Last night I took a closer look at the charger / AC adapter, and it turned out to have a spot on the cord near where it joins the main adaptor box, which, due to too much bending over its lifetime, was barely connected, and with frays and burns...

While streaming soccer last night, my old Vista-running Acer Aspire 5520 shut down without warning. This has happened before, but I attributed it to dust and blew into the fan and it tended to do the trick. When the battery was in and this happened, at least the green power light blinks first...