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Wasted 20 minutes on a laptop that would not charge because I never checked the outlet first
Spent 20 minutes pulling a Dell apart in Dallas last weekend before my kid asked why the power strip light was off, and sure enough the outlet was dead the whole time. I felt like a genius. What is your dumbest repair moment where the fix turned out to be the thing you skipped?
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wendy_sanchez17d ago
Did the power strip have one of those little reset buttons on it that pop out when it gets overloaded? I only ask because I did almost the same thing with a space heater a few winters back, tore the whole thing apart checking the cord and the fuse, and my wife just walked over and pushed the button on the strip. I had a whole theory about a bad heating coil and everything. The outlet thing gets people more than you would guess, my dad once paid a guy 90 bucks to come out and flip a tripped breaker. At least you figured it out before you actually bought any parts for the Dell, that is the real win here.
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