Should I replace my laptop battery, AC adapter, or...?

Question

I was in Ireland for the last 6 months (I'm from NY). While there, I recharged my laptop with a plug adapter. The AC adapter for my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 9100) allowed a European, 220 V charge, so I figured I was OK.

The battery stopped holding a full charge after a while, though I know that is common. The AC adapter would get incredibly hot as well, and the laptop seemed to be overheating quite often. Now that I'm back home, as was the case there, my laptop seems to have heating issues, and in any case, it's running slower. I am rather sure that it's not due to any program/virus/whatever, but it's possible. In any case, I have a fan board thing USB device under it cooling things down, hopefully to some effect.

I'm going to replace my battery in any event. Could my AC adapter be fried, or has my computer irrevocably taken the effects of overheating badly? Maybe the fan board is slowing me down? Any ideas?

Answer 1

i do have same problem with my HP laptop baught it in the Middle East, used it there for and year, now am back in US and the adapter heats up so much that it stops working after 90 minutes of usage then i had to unplug it and keep it for cooling till the battery dies down! then i plug the adapter back in and this goes on and on, so i am gonna replace both as am getting a good deal on ebay!

hope you get a deal too on an adapeter and batt!


:-)

Answer 2

If you haven't Electricity disturbances then take the battery off the compartment while running the laptopyour Aadaptio will not be damaged but to safeguard your laptop you have to shut down it for sometime,give it rest ,enable to cool down and then log in and work.

Answer 3

Yeah more than likely you fried your power adapter, those converters aren't perfect and more often than not kill your hardware. The good news is you can find a cheap replacement on ebay.