I have had two rev A02 PA-13's that are not working. The first one became faulty after a the AC cord to the wall was disconnected. (laptop produced a buzzing noise when PA-13 was plugged in, but 90w supply worked fine, just everything throttled down). I purchased a second PA from the seller, again Rev02 that did the exact same thing.
A Dell technician came to replace my mobo and I thought everything was fine. Booted up with the second PA-13 and buzzing noise was still there! Problem must lie in PA. Removed battery and forced laptop to boot on PA to see if the laptop would post.. and it did!. Success! Everything was fine for about 3 hours. Then my laptop randomly shut off. The light on the PA now does not stay lit. Plugging it into the wall, the light comes on, but then dims until it dies leading me to believe the second PA is also dead.
The seller has been really cool about the whole thing though. He is shipping me a 3rd PA (most likely same revision) as the first two at no charge in hopes that everything works out fine for me. I'm very curious as to where this guy is getting his PA's from.
Also guys, the buzzing noise is apparent regardless of whether I am running the 9300 bios or the XPS bios
A Dell technician came to replace my mobo and I thought everything was fine. Booted up with the second PA-13 and buzzing noise was still there! Problem must lie in PA. Removed battery and forced laptop to boot on PA to see if the laptop would post.. and it did!. Success! Everything was fine for about 3 hours. Then my laptop randomly shut off. The light on the PA now does not stay lit. Plugging it into the wall, the light comes on, but then dims until it dies leading me to believe the second PA is also dead.
The seller has been really cool about the whole thing though. He is shipping me a 3rd PA (most likely same revision) as the first two at no charge in hopes that everything works out fine for me. I'm very curious as to where this guy is getting his PA's from.
Also guys, the buzzing noise is apparent regardless of whether I am running the 9300 bios or the XPS bios
