Date: 09/21/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: no keywords

As the subject says, I have a Dell Latitude C640 laptop and I seem to be having some power issues. This could be completely unrelated, but just as a bit of background, the wall outlet it was plugged into looks like it died sometime over the weekend. I didn't notice until Tuesday morning when I also started having troubles with the laptop. It keeps shutting off randomly throughout the day - probably 4 or 5 times each yesterday and today. Try to turn it back on and absolutely nothing. Try again a bit later and it starts up fine.

I first thought it was maybe the ac adaptor, but the laptop won't power off the battery (100% charged) either. The light on the adaptor is on and I've unplugged/replugged/jiggled just to make sure.

Any suggestions? I'm wondering if this is something worth fixing or if it's time to replace the whole thing (it's probably 4-5 years old). Thanks for any help :)

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