How to turn a laptop into a paperweight

Lose the power supply.

I've just spent the thick end of an hour (and I mean the very thick end) looking for a little black box which is not worth a lot on its own, but given the fact that it has the right funny shaped plug and strange voltage output makes my little UMPC laptop worth having. I found it in the last place I looked.

Wish I'd looked there first.

Comments

[Alfred Thompson]

Of course if you had looked there first it would still have been the last place you looked. :-)

I missplaced a power supply last week. Quite the panic situation.

[Martin Bryant]

I have my laptop and I have my power supply. However, since the former no longer accepts charge from the latter, both being one month out of warrantee, I am peeved.

Getting a repair estimate increased my peevishness.

Time to attempt open-case surgery...