Recent content by CyberPeace

oh goody the war is over not sure what that means seeing i can't justify the change from sd to hd esp since i have a old fashioned TV :)

I am in total agreement with you king. Its the ONLY possible explanation. -Peace

Does mean that dells suck too since they using the barrel design as others have suggested? :rolleyes: Thats what i have been saying. The problem is with the TV and not the laptop. I am not too sure how wise it is for emachines to put the chassies ground to earth ground (dc ground to...

i give up :rolleyes: -Peace

I dont think it has anything todo with the chassies being exposed since the same thing would have happened even if you did not touch the chassis and plugged it right in. All the outputs on the back of the laptop should have a common ground point if not it would be a nightmare. Looking @ it...

I measured the ground plug to the negitive of the DC side of the power supply and i was right, there is about 15 ohms of resistance through the brick. Knowing that i better be careful what kind of devices i hook to this laptop or leave the ground floating so things dont go boom. -Peace

with the laptop unplugged the grounds are floating and will goto whatever potential its connected to, in this case the TV. Just guessing if the TV had some type of voltage on the svideo connector that would cause that laptop ground to goto whatever voltage the svideo cable is. I havent measured...

That Measurement doesnt suprise me. It looks like what your measuring is chassis ground of the laptop. I am starting to wonder if there was some sort of ground fault between the TV and the laptop that caused the flash. The outside of the power connector is negitive so the only thing i can...