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Unidentifiable piece with my new Sentia

post #1 of 7
10/1/04 at 5:30pm
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Greetings all,

Just got a new Sentia (yay) for my wife and I to use while traveling through Europe, which replaces the two Area 51m laptops that were stolen (boo) while we were in England. It took a while for them to arrive and I'm really disappointed with Alienware sales support, but I digress...

I really wanted to ask a simple question. I found an unknown piece of something in my box of goodies. It looks as if it's a magnet. And it seems as if it could snap onto a cable. Can someone please help me identify what this is and what it's used for?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Forever learning,
Jeff
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post #2 of 7
10/1/04 at 6:45pm
possible to get some images of this thing??

then perhaps I could help, also then you could email them to AW customer services and ask them lol. congrats on ya new lappie while your at it post some pic's of that
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post #3 of 7
10/1/04 at 10:02pm
Could be a ferrite core to reduce EMI.

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post #4 of 7
10/1/04 at 10:05pm
Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I recieved the same thing with my uniwill lappie. What is EMI? :P
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post #5 of 7
10/1/04 at 11:06pm
ElectroMagnetic Interference, it can play havoc with unshielded cables.
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post #6 of 7
10/4/04 at 6:50am
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Thanks, device manager! That's exactly what it looks like. Now, I'll go research if and where I actually need to attach this thing to my power cable...

Thanks again,
Peace,
Jeff
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post #7 of 7
10/4/04 at 2:55pm
Attach it just like you see in the pic above.
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