📓 repairing-a-dell-latitude-e7450.md by @neil ☆

Repairing a Dell Latitude E7450

Problem

It turned off out of the blue, and now no signs of life.

Diagnosis

Work undertaken

Things to try

Testing the power supply

It’s listed as: 19.5 V output, 3.34A

Testing the power supply with the multimeter, it actually was reading out around 19.5. And lo and behold, the LED is actually back on again now.

So let’s see if it’ll power the laptop again OK.

Wait, weird, it’s gone again. Is it a loose connection? Or the laptop shorted it? Yeah, the laptop shorts it out it seems? The light goes off when you plug it into the laptop.

My laptop charger turns off as soon as I plug it in to the laptop. It’s not t…

It sounds like it might be a short circuit on the motherboard… oh dear, not good.

Problem with the motherboard

Dell power supply light goes out when plugged into the laptop computer #short… ‎Laptop shorting out charger | DELL Technologies laptop adapter light turns off when plugged in - YouTube

Possibly the laptop overheating could have caused it?

laptop motherboard "shorts" when connected to adapter - Super User

This post suggests a couple of things to try:

‎Latitude E7450 Power Failure | DELL Technologies

Dell Latitude E7450 DC Jack Replacement Video Tutorial - YouTube

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