On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Josh Trutwin wrote: > Have an A/C adapter on an HP pavillion laptop that's gone bad (beeping > at me - cord jiggling, smacking it not working). Anyone know if there's > a local place where I could find a replacement? I can get one on eBay > but won't be here till sometime next week. > > I got some universal adapter a while ago from Radioshack but it doesn't > seem to work with this laptop. :/ This might not help you, but everyone should know that some newer adaptors and appliances are coming with a feature that is not well-advertised. It is that they need to be left unplugged sometimes for 30 minutes or so, then plugged back in. It's some kind of circuit breaker reset or something. The crazy thing is that I was sure my Asus adapter was bad. I looked on the web and many people were having exactly the same problem. It seemed that smacking it against a table cured it once. I was wrong. It wasn't the smacking it that helped, it was just leaving it unplugged long enough. That works every time. They don't tell you this in the manual and I didn't even find it on the web. Some people were returning them to Best Buy 2-3 times, but it was probably unnecessary. I also have a Cuisinart coffee maker that stopped working. I thought I had tried everything to bring it back to life. Then I unplugged it from the wall because I thought it was through. My wife plugged it back in the next day and it suddenly worked again. When it happened a second time, I knew what to do. I suppose it is a safety feature, but it would be nice if they'd give us a little warning on this kind of thing. Like I said, this might not help the OP, but maybe it will save someone else some trouble someday. Mike