Stupid me decided to tilt this laptop back while it was plugged in.
Now it won't charge. Plug was broken when I got it. I glued it back
together and was working fine untill I tilted it. The power light on
the supply still comes on. There are no bent pins in the laptop all
looks well. I even took the laptop apart to check the solider joints
on the power jack and all looks well. The laptop dosen't respond the
the powersupply at all, no light, runs off of the battery when it's
plugged in, battery dosen't charge. I'm thinking maybe something
shorted and fried the powersupply when it was tilted. Does anyone know
the pinout of this powersupply so I can rule it out?? The pinout or
any other suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Chance

Chance wrote:
> Stupid me decided to tilt this laptop back while it was plugged in.
> Now it won't charge. Plug was broken when I got it. I glued it back
> together and was working fine untill I tilted it. The power light on
> the supply still comes on. There are no bent pins in the laptop all
> looks well. I even took the laptop apart to check the solider joints
> on the power jack and all looks well. The laptop dosen't respond the
> the powersupply at all, no light, runs off of the battery when it's
> plugged in, battery dosen't charge. I'm thinking maybe something
> shorted and fried the powersupply when it was tilted. Does anyone know
> the pinout of this powersupply so I can rule it out?? The pinout or
> any other suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
>
> Regards,
> Chance

I apologize for replying to my own post but after some more testing I
found that I have 20V on pins 2,3,and 4 and pin one is ground. I found
the ground pin by opening up the brick and it was printed on the board.
The sticker on the bottom of the supply reads DC output 20V, Charge
output 8.5v-20v. Does this sound right?

Regards,
Chance

Sorry again for replying to my own post but I bit the bullet and cut
the plug off of the adapter. After some testing I was pretty shure
this was the problem. Shure enough after cutting the plug and
connecting the leads directly to the lap top it started charging the
battery and runing off of the adapter. So my question now is can I buy
just the plug or will I have to put down $50 for a whole adapter? If
anyone knows a place I can buy just the plug at I'd love to know.
Thanks again for your time.

Regards,
Chance

Hi Chance

What power supply is yours? I think i may have the same one, it has a 4
pin square connector, and the model is ILAN F1900, with DC OUTPUT 20v
3.25A / CHARGE OUTPUT 8.5v~20v 1.2A.

Is this the same spec as yours? Could you post what the pinout of this
is? My cable had three wires plus a ground shield, here is what I think
the pinout is, could you confirm it with yours pls?

Socket view looking towards the back of the laptop...

white X X red
black X X Ground

Thanks.