Technical Help Needed.............. ......

I have been given an old Laptop by a mate of mine, trouble is it didnt have a power adaptor or a battery. I have bought an adaptor from E-Bay, plugged it in but it still doesnt work, could some nice person please tell me whether it should now work or does it still need a battery to work? This is the first Laptop i have even looked at and im not to clued up on these sort of things.

I was assured that the battery was not essential but im not so sure. Its quite an old Laptop, a Dell Latitude CPx. I dont want to waste loads of money on it if it still wont work with a battery. I have tried Google but no-one could give me a straight answer. Can someone please Help? Thanks in advance.

Posted By: CarlsbergCanary on December 20th 2009 at 16:55:48

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Technical Help Needed.................... (General Chat) - CarlsbergCanary, Dec 20, 16:55:48
- Hmmm battery in our fairly old laptop is fucked, but it does still work from mains. (General Chat) - megson, Dec 20, 18:25:01
  - No the battery is missing, which made me wonder if thats why it wont work (General Chat) - CarlsbergCanary, Dec 20, 21:52:28
    - It will work without the battery (General Chat) - dollish gene, Dec 20, 22:02:50
- Both my lappys, medion and sony work without (General Chat) - barclayspirit, Dec 20, 17:00:21
  - Ok Cheers, im beginning to think adaptor might be shot or........ (General Chat) - CarlsbergCanary, Dec 20, 17:06:41

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