Inspiron suddenly cant recognise charger

I have an 8200 which suddenly cant recognise its 90 watt charger. It
pretends on POST that the charger isnt 90W and says it can only
operate at 70w and therefore in battery optimised mode which is
treackly slow. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the
charger. It doesnt overheat or behave anything other than normally.
Ift has been doing this for a few months while I was wondering whether
this problem would sort itself out. If there was anything wrong with
this charger, I suspect it would have blown by now and the power would
have dropped much further than a minor amount lower than 90w

Does anyone recognise this symptom and is there anything I can do
about it please? Is this a re-install firmware or replace positioning
of memory chips situation or something?

<> wrote in message
news:0a07bf45-1b59-4039-bd16-...
>I have an 8200 which suddenly cant recognise its 90 watt charger. It
> pretends on POST that the charger isnt 90W and says it can only
> operate at 70w and therefore in battery optimised mode which is
> treackly slow. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the
> charger. It doesnt overheat or behave anything other than normally.
> Ift has been doing this for a few months while I was wondering whether
> this problem would sort itself out. If there was anything wrong with
> this charger, I suspect it would have blown by now and the power would
> have dropped much further than a minor amount lower than 90w
>
> Does anyone recognise this symptom and is there anything I can do
> about it please? Is this a re-install firmware or replace positioning
> of memory chips situation or something?



It would seem that either the AC adapter (charger) has gone bad or that the
system board itself in not recognizing the charger at proper specs.

A bad AC adapter/charger would be more ideal, more likely, and much less
expensive.

S.Lewis wrote:
> <> wrote in message
> news:0a07bf45-1b59-4039-bd16-...
>> I have an 8200 which suddenly cant recognise its 90 watt charger. It
>> pretends on POST that the charger isnt 90W and says it can only
>> operate at 70w and therefore in battery optimised mode which is
>> treackly slow. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the
>> charger. It doesnt overheat or behave anything other than normally.
>> Ift has been doing this for a few months while I was wondering whether
>> this problem would sort itself out. If there was anything wrong with
>> this charger, I suspect it would have blown by now and the power would
>> have dropped much further than a minor amount lower than 90w
>>
>> Does anyone recognise this symptom and is there anything I can do
>> about it please? Is this a re-install firmware or replace positioning
>> of memory chips situation or something?
>
> It would seem that either the AC adapter (charger) has gone bad or that the
> system board itself in not recognizing the charger at proper specs.
>
> A bad AC adapter/charger would be more ideal, more likely, and much less
> expensive.

Yes it doesn't sound good to me either. As do to age and heating cycles,
electronic parts specs starts to change. And parts like electrolytic
capacitors only last so long and start to fail.

--
Bill
3 Asus EEE PC 7014G ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
2 Asus EEE PC 7028G ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux

On 08/12/2008 15:05, BillW50 wrote:
> S.Lewis wrote:
>> <> wrote in message
>> news:0a07bf45-1b59-4039-bd16-...
>>> I have an 8200 which suddenly cant recognise its 90 watt charger. It
>>> pretends on POST that the charger isnt 90W and says it can only
>>> operate at 70w and therefore in battery optimised mode which is
>>> treackly slow. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the
>>> charger. It doesnt overheat or behave anything other than normally.
>>> Ift has been doing this for a few months while I was wondering whether
>>> this problem would sort itself out. If there was anything wrong with
>>> this charger, I suspect it would have blown by now and the power would
>>> have dropped much further than a minor amount lower than 90w
>>>
>>> Does anyone recognise this symptom and is there anything I can do
>>> about it please? Is this a re-install firmware or replace positioning
>>> of memory chips situation or something?
>>
>> It would seem that either the AC adapter (charger) has gone bad or
>> that the system board itself in not recognizing the charger at proper
>> specs.
>>
>> A bad AC adapter/charger would be more ideal, more likely, and much
>> less expensive.
>
> Yes it doesn't sound good to me either. As do to age and heating cycles,
> electronic parts specs starts to change. And parts like electrolytic
> capacitors only last so long and start to fail.
>


Might be worth checking to make sure that you have the latest BIOS?

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:43:19 -0600, "S.Lewis"
<> wrote:

>
><> wrote in message
>news:0a07bf45-1b59-4039-bd16-...
>>I have an 8200 which suddenly cant recognise its 90 watt charger. It
>> pretends on POST that the charger isnt 90W and says it can only
>> operate at 70w and therefore in battery optimised mode which is
>> treackly slow. I don't believe there is anything wrong with the
>> charger. It doesnt overheat or behave anything other than normally.
>> Ift has been doing this for a few months while I was wondering whether
>> this problem would sort itself out. If there was anything wrong with
>> this charger, I suspect it would have blown by now and the power would
>> have dropped much further than a minor amount lower than 90w
>>
>> Does anyone recognise this symptom and is there anything I can do
>> about it please? Is this a re-install firmware or replace positioning
>> of memory chips situation or something?
>
>
>
>It would seem that either the AC adapter (charger) has gone bad or that the
>system board itself in not recognizing the charger at proper specs.
>
>A bad AC adapter/charger would be more ideal, more likely, and much less
>expensive.
>
U just purchased an XPS1530 from the outlet store. The connecter one
the charger had a chip on the connector pluug ring. At boot time the
system complained that it did not recognize the charger, but it
appeared to be charging. I replaced it with a 65w charger from an
E1505 and it recognized it and complained about it not being a 90w,
but let me press f1 to contine. Complained about sub-optimal charging.
When the new 90w arrived, no complaints.

So, try another charger if you have it. and look at the connector
itself for any damage.

Mike