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A guide to buying HP laptop chargers

Are you looking to buy a charger for your HP laptop? Find out what you need to learn about buying the correct laptop charger for your computer because buying the wrong one will lead to problems.

Should you buy a new charger or a battery?

If your laptop is having problems and you cannot decide whether it is the laptop power cord or the laptop battery, you will want to do a quick test. If the laptop charges but dies after you unplug any HP chargers, then it is your battery that needs replacing. If you find that your laptop does not charge at all, then you need to replace your charger. It could also be a hardware problem but it is most likely to be a normal charger problem if you had the charger for a long time and the computer was working fine before. Now that you know what to look for, let us look at what you need to know and find when you need to purchase a new charger.

Buying a new charger

Since you are not buying HP batteries or HP laptop batteries, you can just focus on the power charger. You can find these AC power supplies anywhere online as it will be hard to get them at a local shop. You cannot buy a Dell laptop charger,a Compaq laptop adapter, or a Toshiba laptop adapter. You need to make sure you buy Hewlett Packard parts because the parts will not be compatible with some exceptions. Here are two things to look for:
1. The size of the port
Look at the laptop chargers and try to match one that looks like the same design as the one in your computer.
2. You want to check the voltage
A different voltage written on the computer with the charger will either blow your computer's motherboard or not give you enough power. In either way, it will damage your computer. You can find a notebook power supply anywhere on the internet such as Amazon or Ebay. You just have to make sure that you look through a lot of HP power supplies and find the right one or else you will definitely suffer the consequences. There are some Compaq laptop chargers or other brands that will work with your laptop, but make sure that you consider the two points I mentioned above.

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