Posts by wackowoody_1

yup, adapter went bad here too. You'd think with all of the common problems they'd come up with a solution, other than replace the badly designed adapter with another. Other than the week turn around for a new adapter, I can't bi#ch. ...

That's kind of what happened to mine. Thought it was charging while using it, didn't notice the charge light not on, then it powered off. I looked at the AC adapter and the LED was not on. Got pissed slapped the AC adapter, it came...

Looks like Sager or Clevo I guess need to look at redesigning the power adapter. It obviously has a design flaw. Found a web site selling them for $75 dollars, thinking about getting a second one, at least I'll have one during the RMA...

The power adapter is covered by warranty, just get a RMA. I'm shipping mine off now. I found if I hit the adapter it will come back on for a second, so I guess it's internal short. Found this out because I was p sed off at it. ...

My AC Adapter seems to have S#$t the bed. Does anyone know if it is covered by the warranty? With the battery life of a 8890 this means I have a 12lb worthless brick. Dammit.

Thanks for the info, all. I used the patje mobile mod and it finally worked.

Tried that and still get an error finding some .inf file