Thanks for the info. I think It's the battery. I left it on all day and got home from work and it was still humming along. But, as I said before, only time will tell. I think I'll give it a week and then put the battery back in to see if it starts crashing again. On 10/19/09, Jim March <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote: > > There's one more thing about laptop bricks. > > The wattage. > > You want a replacement with as much or more wattage as what you have. > Never less. Common sizes run from 45watt on the low end to the 60 to > 75 range as the most common, 90 to 120 for the big guys. > > It's OK to use a brick with "too much" wattage on a smaller machine, > so long as the voltage and plug size/pins are correct. The lappy will > only draw what it needs. > > On the aforementioned Dell brick I used as an example, it doesn't list > watts directly. It says 19.5 volts at 3.34 amps. So take a nice > little conversion website like: > > http://www.supercircuits.com/resources/tools/Volts-Watts-Amps-Converter > > Punch in whatever two items you know and it will calculate the third - > in this case, 65.13 amps, right in the "midsize" range. > > So if I was shopping for a replacement brick, I would know a 60 would > be trouble and a 75 would be fine. > > Cool, huh? > > Your existing brick will ALWAYS tell you what's going on - both on the > input (AC) side and output (DC) side. Unless you peeled the sticker > off listing all that... > > > Jim > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: