I have been putting off on getting a new computer. There are numerous issues that I am putting up with but todays was a break through. There have been a few annoying problems like the screens flickering and turning off, the machine going into sleep mode despite it being set to three hours and most things taking longer. A diagnostic message got to the heart of it 'The power supply is degraded and can no longer supply enough power'. Now that is a sutble problem that explains all those issues. My laptop is constantly at 100% power and always plugged in, yet the ticker was now saying 49% and was still dropping. I have put in an order for a new power supply and come up with another workaround which is to use two old power supplies and hey presto my battery is charging again. I would have had to undock until the new supply arrived but this way all the peripherals are still engaged, hopefully for long enough, as the input is now being shared.
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