J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
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I don't know whether it was hot before, or that could have answered it.
:-) I don't have such a thermometer, but I can tell you this much: if
you leave your finger inside that metal port for about 5-10 seconds, you
will need to pull it out. :-) Paul seemed to be suggesting that might
be around 65C. I just looked this up on the Internet, and according to
one article, it
says 60C (for up to 5 seconds). I'm not sure if anything inside the
laptop is supposed to run that hot, but maybe it could (it does have a
NVIDIA graphics chip, afterall). Oh, and I did check it out with the
battery removed, but got the same result.

That obviously eliminates a faulty battery as the source of the heat,
and probably also the charging circuit. Running it _on_ the battery for
a while would eliminate a poor connection at the power socket (if it
still gets warm), but usually you'd know about that as those get _very_
hot, and you'd usually smell hot plastic, and (assuming you have the
usual power settings) the screen brightness may vary. (If you sniff
around the hot port, _do_ you smell anything amiss?)

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No, nothing amiss. And again I don't know if this was related to the other
problem, either, but since I've got another laptop to mess around with, will
probably just let it go.