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You’ll find that all that’s wrong is just one of the leads coming off the transformer has fried or broken. Cut the lead back a little, tin the freshly exposed wire, and solder both leads (may as well do both) to their corresponding terminals.

This is exactly what happened. Thanks for the advice. I tried your recommendation this morning, but I just couldn't crack that black box open. Anyway, I found a small computer sales and service store, and found one for $49.99.

I hate those laptop cords. They always break inside right at the PC end of the cord. The one I'm running right now broke right between the plug and the little molded on RF choke so I opened the jacket there and twisted the wires together.

My wife tripped over her cord and the whole thing hit the floor and broke the receptacle on the motherboard. That was a bugger to fix let me tell you. Of course I couldn't find the right size receptacle so I had to change the plug on the cord to match the replacement and the whole thing was a constant headache. I finally gave up and just bought her a new laptop and gave her old one to my brother. He is not so mean to it and the power cord setup doesn't give him any trouble at all.

Those power bricks come from the lowest bidder though. A few feet of something like robotics cable would have made a heck of a difference.

Justaham - is that ham as in radio operator? I have been one for 31 years and made Extra Class just this past spring.