Hi guys,
So I've had my laptop for almost 9 months now and have had this problem since day one. I haven't seen it as a problem personally until I asked some people about it and was told it was a problem with the adapter itself.
The problem is, more-often-than-not, when I plug my laptop into the wall and/or turn it on at the wall, it will trip the electrics in my house. The resulting surge has caused surge damage to my refrigerator (nothing serious, just a 7 segment display is partially not working any more.)
I'm getting sick of the lottery every time I need to charge my laptop, and as a result, I had resorted to keeping the laptop plugged in and powered on at the mains as much as possible. Obviously, this isn't good for the battery, or my electricity bill.
I have just fired off an email to support asking them to consider a replacement adapter as my laptop is still under silver warranty, but I would like to gauge your opinions whilst I wait for a reply.
I always thought it was the shoddy electrics in my house that was built around the 1920's, but the general opinion so far seems it's a fault with the adapter. I have even tried turning the adapter on whilst it's not plugged into the laptop, and this still causes the electrics to trip.
So what do you think? Is this to be expected from my adapter in the environment I use it in (at home, via electrics originally installed in the 1920's (but obviously updated since then at intervals)), or does the environment not matter and the fault does lie within the adapter? I must add that when I use it at work, it has never tripped the electrics, but those were updated only a year ago, and I'd imagine would be used to higher surges and strains of electricity as it's a company/office setting and not built 94 years ago.
So I've had my laptop for almost 9 months now and have had this problem since day one. I haven't seen it as a problem personally until I asked some people about it and was told it was a problem with the adapter itself.
The problem is, more-often-than-not, when I plug my laptop into the wall and/or turn it on at the wall, it will trip the electrics in my house. The resulting surge has caused surge damage to my refrigerator (nothing serious, just a 7 segment display is partially not working any more.)
I'm getting sick of the lottery every time I need to charge my laptop, and as a result, I had resorted to keeping the laptop plugged in and powered on at the mains as much as possible. Obviously, this isn't good for the battery, or my electricity bill.
I have just fired off an email to support asking them to consider a replacement adapter as my laptop is still under silver warranty, but I would like to gauge your opinions whilst I wait for a reply.
I always thought it was the shoddy electrics in my house that was built around the 1920's, but the general opinion so far seems it's a fault with the adapter. I have even tried turning the adapter on whilst it's not plugged into the laptop, and this still causes the electrics to trip.
So what do you think? Is this to be expected from my adapter in the environment I use it in (at home, via electrics originally installed in the 1920's (but obviously updated since then at intervals)), or does the environment not matter and the fault does lie within the adapter? I must add that when I use it at work, it has never tripped the electrics, but those were updated only a year ago, and I'd imagine would be used to higher surges and strains of electricity as it's a company/office setting and not built 94 years ago.
