laptop power

[gettin2dizzy]

anyone have any idea why my 5th power adaptor for my laptop broke (in an hour)?! its really ****ing me off. I took it to pieces and checked the connection - all looks fine - its not one of the vulnerable ones of the past.
its a tosh sat. m30 if anyone else has had these problems. (i've since been converted to the way of the mac :D )

[Demonz]

Is it the connector that broke? I'm on my third connector over the last year... Tosh as well.

[gettin2dizzy]

no. i undid about 40 screws and looked at it and it was fine. only some models seem to be affected by this. I have a feeling that i'm using a 3A adaptor instead of a 4A. but i doubt this could make it fail. anyone got any thoughts on that?

[Demonz]

Sorry - not internally - the male connector that goes into the unit??

The wires always break so I just chop it off and replace it with one from Maplins (£2).

[gettin2dizzy]

oh ok . well i bought a new adapter today, and it lasted an hour without being moved. So that part can't have broken. i know what you mean though! what a bad design. The laptop i have now has a magnetic connection - any knock and it falls out without damaging anything. brilliant!

[arenalife]

3A instead of 4 is quite deficit, the lappy could well be cooking them by trying to draw too much current. Are these original manufacturer power supplies?

[gettin2dizzy]

the old ones were, but going through them so quickly meant i started buying ones off ebay. I was only using the lesser 3A one, as thats what toshibas repair department shipped it with. (after 4 1/2 months of trying to find the problem!!) i think i'll get a new 4A adapter, if that doesn't work - bin time.
cheers