My friend had the misfortune of plugging a power supply not meant for his Dell Inspiron 5100 into it and now seems to have a serious problem. The laptop will not post, it doesn't do much other than flash some lights now.
I'm afraid that he killed the motherboard or something equally fatal, however I thought I would ask here to see if perhaps dell has some sort of safeguard against this sort of thing. The bad power supply he used had an output of 5VAC 2000mA while the correct dell has an output of 20v ~~~ 4500mA.
So, is he screwed? If not what needs to be done (replaced) to fix it?
I'm afraid that he killed the motherboard or something equally fatal, however I thought I would ask here to see if perhaps dell has some sort of safeguard against this sort of thing. The bad power supply he used had an output of 5VAC 2000mA while the correct dell has an output of 20v ~~~ 4500mA.
So, is he screwed? If not what needs to be done (replaced) to fix it?