Beeping Dell Inspiron 6000 adapter

drsusan

Hi, im currently having problems with my adapter for my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. When I plug it in its fine, green light comes on, but as soon as I plug it into the laptop the light goes out and it emits a high pitched beep, it used to be continuous but now it is intermittent. Its a new adapter of only a few months and my laptop is now out of battery so I am unable to use it to diagnose what is wrong, any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks

Browntoa

try taking the battery out of the laptop, then try the adapter again

sunshine54

i had exactly this with an inspiron charger (no light and beeping) found if i wiggled the output lead for a while, the light would come back on.
if i then kept it still, all was ok so i put it down to a loose wire.
fortunately had 1 month to go on the warranty, so dell replaced it. no problems since.
i did look on ebay and there are plenty or dell chargers, but get the right type