dv5 Adapter Issue

I was watching a movie upstairs and the adapter was working perfectly fine. I unplugged it and went downstairs, then replugged it in and the little light that indicates the laptop is charging, would not show up.

I put the adapter to my ear and heard the very faint beep/buzz noise it makes, making me believe that it's working fine.

Well I plugged in the adapter to my father's Dell notebook, then plugged it into my laptop and it's working perfectly fine.

Is there anything I can do for my HP battery? I mean, the last time something like this happened with an HP I had, the adapter wasn't even making the faint noise, it was just dead. I ended up having to buy a universal one. I would use that one for this notebook except, it doesn't fit into the slot.

Any thoughts?

 

It's usually trauma that makes a laptop adapter die, but if you've been nice to it, then I would assume heat got it.

I had the same thing happen with the adapter to my DV5, was nice to it, never threw it around or anything, but it sometimes got hotter than 122*F, which in my opinion is too hot. It was making that nice little buzz sound that you describe, and I found that I could wiggle the cord going to the laptop enough to get it to work. Over time, it started making a nice little beeping noise that I could make go away by doing the same wiggling. This was all a means to an end really so when it finally died, I was in the middle of a project so I put the laptop in sleep mode and ran up to my Best Buy and picked up a $65.00 charger made by HP. It gets hot too, but between sending my laptop in all the time and the new one, I have 3 of them laying around and all have warranties on them ~ one year.

In the end, you need a new adapter. I don't really trust those universal ones, and not to mention the fact that the HP replacement is usually cheaper....

 

I had a similar problem, but was a bit more courageous about a solution. First I removed the adapter from the wall outlet and discharged any static electricity I had. Then (figuring the same thing you did, that I would have to buy a new one anyway), I disconnected the power cable that runs to the laptop from the power brick itself. It still remained attached, but I noticed there was contact between the metal wire sheath, and the hot conductor.

I separated the two and eureka, it worked. Granted it may spark to high heaven if moved around a bit, but knock on wood it hasn't started any fires for me.

I'm no electrician but that's how it happened.