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The picture of the laptop on the first few pages was the right one but when I got to the 'taking it to bits' part near the end, it was identical to your earlier one. Dang it!
Doc, help!!!!!!!!!!!

It sounds like your power board gone, some power supplies (eg DELL - grrrr) have a data wire that can cause sillies.

Yep see the doc!

Sounds like your having grief with this Croc,

Sound like you need the dodgy power socket looking at, you won't be able to get to it unless you remove,battery,HDD and actual bottom of the case to expose the main board. I'd hazard a guess and say the fault is between the soldering on the pins on the socket itself and the circuit board, can be repaied yourself but needs a bit of care you don't want to heat any nearby components up with the soldering iron or could make it worse I'd take it to a local bench engineer it's about an hours job and will probs cost £45 ish for lab shouldn't need any parts

Good luck lid

Honestly, I leave you alone for one weekend and look what happens....

If you've stripped it down just bring the board in we'll redo the socket for you and test the path, if it's together then still bring it in but you'll have to cover the time it takes to do it :-) WikiRates apply

Just so you know the socket is (usually) on the opposite side to the bottom panel so to get to it properly you have to strip the laptop completely, there isn't just an access panel. maybe a design feature for the future, panel to access a power socket which is connected to the board on a fly lead, time to fit new one, about 2 mins, socket is held against case and board isn't under stress from in and out as the socket has no rigid fix to it.