:: The One with Tapes! ::
Again, something broke. I dont recall damaging this. That’s the damned thing. Argh.
It’s the laptop adaptor cable and it looks like it was rolled over by a car of some sort. Visited the nearby HP store to enquire on a replacement only to find it costs a whopping RM290. Yeap, my jaw dropped when the fatso told me.
Again, I’m not ready to part with that amount so this is gonna be another “How To” thingy.
Step #1:
Get your hands on some electrical wiring tape or even better, insulation tapes which can be purchased from your trusted hardware shop or in my case, Home Fix in 1-Utama/ACE Hardware (Ikano/MidValley) for less than RM5.
Step #2 :
Make sure the power supply is off (nasty surprise if it “shorts”).
The two connecting parts of the wiring should be properly connected/wired. If required cut it off and reconnect them. In this case, the inner wiring looks different and I rather not chance cutting them to rewire.
Cut a length of insulation tape, around 2″-4″ depending on the subject’s diameter. Tape the joint at an angle and make sure ia dililit dengan baik.
Yea, its fugly. But for something MUCH less than RM 290, it will do for the time being.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 am
Should last until the next PC fair…
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:32 am
muahahaa..darn..shud i even buy HP…oh gosh..scary…
but then again..they manage to put their brand position at that standard…so cant complain much la..hehehe
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 am
kitkat : nah, i think i will go get the cable off ebay or lelong. i refuse to pay that amount of money the crooks in HP/dealers.
gerald : lol, built quality of HP is excellent. and this damage is human error, nothing to do with HP. its the pricing of the darn cable that i’m grousing bout.
guess for a premium product you have to premium price eh?
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
Happened to my dad’s Acer laptop adaptor too, it’s kinda scary when sparks flew if u twist it around a bit!!
I’m not sure how much he had to pay for it… but I think Acer is of lower brand value than HP
June 4th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
tokmoh : i think all lappie accessories are price quite near to one another. think i will try looking for one in lowyat at those old computer shops.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
tokmoh : You actually had sparks shooting out of the cable? I had fire coming out from my old desktop monitor, it was a small flame, then it died, soon smoke started coming out of the monitor. lol. I don’t think anyone is able to DIY it unless he has some advance electrical knowledge.
Kev : Normally big companies would charge those kind of prices for complementary items. I enquired once about a handphone-2-pc wire for my old Nokia 6220, and the price was a whopping RM200. Yes RM200 for just a puny wire. However, those parts should cost a lot too since they are not manufactured in mass quantities. Normally they are sold as a set with the main product.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
vincent : hmm, never thought of it that way. but i’m gonna try my luck in lowyat one of these days.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
hehhe Kev: I am alive again, so long i did not post up any updates, but it is due to firefox fault lo cos my mozilla always crashes =(
D.I.Y sound good, so what happen to your car right now?? hehe..
June 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
lizzie : OMG, you died and rose again?
kereta looks great now! you’ll see it when you see it! another post on it soon.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Why screw HP in and out? LOL…
June 8th, 2009 at 9:48 am
grace : cuz its a rip off. for something priced at a maximum of 50 USD, upon conversion is still under RM200.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
haha, I shall be back soon to check your car out..haha….
yah right, I rose again..haha…welcome to the kingdom, muahaha..