Inspiron suddenly died

[6CylinderMerc]

My trusty Dell Inspiron 4100 suddenly shut down & died the other day. Battery has been knackered for several years (that's what happens when it's left running on mains for 3 years) so I can't fire it up at all. There's no whirring of hard drive or anything, it's totally dead when I press the power button so I'm pretty sure it's not the screen switch gone. I'm wondering if it's the mains adapter AC feed but before I buy another mains adapter, what do the IT experts think?

 

[masqueraid]

Without wanting to be acussed of stating the obvious ...
Does the mains/charger light on the Inspiron come on when it's plugged into the adaptor? If so the adaptor is OK. Age cracks in solder/PCBs are the usual cause of this in which case it might be time to say goodbye to it.

 

[6CylinderMerc]

No lights, nothing. I can get a non gen adapter from ebay so I guess I should at least give it a go before I bin it?

 

[Dragon]

Have you check the fuse on the main plug?

 

[6CylinderMerc]

I was away working so when I got home the fuse was the first thing I checked. Light on the adapter was on so the fuse was fine.....

After much head scratching I started to check the obvious. Turns out the wife inavertantly pulled out the power lead from the back of the pc & never noticed . Plugged it in & it fired up ok


Women!