Dells and Universal AC Adapter

[pillowshot]

Hey guy,

I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience with Universal AC Adaptors and their laptops.

My girlfriend has an M301z, and the charger for it broke about a month ago.. We picked up a cheap replacement on eBay which worked fine for about a fortnight but then started having errors about not being recognized and also intermittently working/not being detected at all.

It seems something has gone wrong in the tip as moving it around often makes the laptop pick it up again.

In any case, I was considering getting her the following adapter:

OcUK Universal 120W Notebook AC Adaptor - With 9 Tips [PSUPCACU120S]

I'm just wondering whether this will throw up the "AC Adapter not recognized etc." error (bear in mind that the cheap replacement we bought worked PERFECTLY fine for those first 2 weeks)

Thanks guys!

[Tsunade_Hime]

I would avoid all universal adapters as you cannot tell the quality of 3rd party adapters. Secondly Dell's BIOS is very picky about having genuine adapters, if it is not a Dell adapter it will not charge the laptop. I would look at getting a cheap PA-3E