Plugged headphones in wrong hole

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Yyrd

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plugging headphones into my asus laptop, it slid in to another (square with tab in it)hole right next to the headphone plug. not even sure what this other hole is. its not usb or video. but, the computer instantly shut off and its now dead. any advice?
 

It's an electronic fuse inside the chips set. It also happens, if you drain to much power from an usb port. What you did would have been my next suggestion: full reset with battery out.

 

lolligirly

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This literally just happened to me, I searched for the reason it happened after mine came back on...

1)Solution for me was sit there in shock :heink: /wait a "few" seconds
2)Unplug everything mouse attachment as well
3)Press the power button
4)Wait a few more seconds
5)*Hold down* the power button about the same amount of time it would take to shut the system down (the
wrong way).
6)Wait a "few" more seconds
7)Press the power button again, just as if you were simply turning it on.

Mine ran updates, restarted and came right back on...

WHEW!!!!!!!! That was close AND I just took a bunch of pictures I haven't backed up.
Thank God, they must have planned for things like that happening, it basically repaired itself.
 

richgmz

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The exact thing happened to my Asus this afternoon. I tried holding down the power button and a few other things. Nothing worked. Google brought me to this thread (using another computer). I opened up my laptop and found two cell phone sized batteries inside. They were attached to the circuit board and were not removable, but since I had nothing to lose, I carefully removed them anyway. I then put the laptop back together without the batteries, plugged in the power cord and it worked! I'll always need my power cord from now on. Not a perfect solution, but there you have it.
 

gvollmers

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I did this just yesterday and I tried holding and pressing the power button, plugging it in, and even took off the back. However in the end I finally got it to work by waiting about 45 minutes and then holding down the power button and right-clicking on the touchpad. Hope this helps.
 

loopylexi

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i just had this happen to me
After sitting in shock thinking..:ouch:... ive broken another laptop i powered her up. Slow very slow so i messaged a good friend who said unplug leave a few minutes and fire her back up.
so panicking 10minutes later i restarted she still seems a little confused and slow but working (thank god) so it did work for me to do this. But a solution i am using to not do it again.. i had a wireless mouse with a really small attachment you place in the usb port... so my port is now covered as i use a gaming mouse. It sticks out about 1/2 a cm, i got it from pc world in January if anyone wants to get one or you can ebay one and get the mouse and attachment for like 2.50. if your worried about it happening again or for anyone wanting to get these laptops as they are brilliant.
hope this helps
peace out :pt1cable:
 

Kbeeme

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I'm not sure if you've solved the problem by now but you probably have. I just did the exact same thing and I all did was take out the battery for 3 minutes, put it back in and it turned on fine.
 

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The info you are referring to has another step in there, which I will include below. It is meant to clear out the power completely and anything that may be being held in the system. That is unusually, a laptop without a removable battery. That usually occurs in tablets. The option you refer to may or may not help though. With the static issue, it may well have fried something within the computer. The static charge having traveled in from where you touched the device. Here are the instructions on what you were wanting to try....

Try the following and see if it will turn on.

1. First make sure the device has been charged.
2. Unplug your charger cord.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Press and hold the "Power" button for 30 seconds and see if the device will turn on.
5. If it does, great, now plug back in the power/charger cord. (If it didn't turn on without the cord in, it should turn on once you it is in.)
6. Now put the battery back in.

Should none of this help (with you replacing the remove battery with waiting until it is totally drained), then you should take a look inside it at the motherboard and elsewhere, as it really does sound like the static was the cause, and that would not just be a power on issue.
 

rgd1101

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don't plagiarize solution
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3134992/accidentally-touched-usb-port-headphone-pin-heard-static-sound-screen-turned.html#18374539
 

leandro.wsp

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First: English is not my first language, so...
This happened to me a couple days ago, my notebook is a Samsung x41 e5m
I was connecting the pug of my headphone and slip in to contact with the usb,
Notebook shut down immediately
What i have done:
1) Disasembly my machine
2) Disconect hdd and RAM
3) initialize machine again (will not initialize because is whitout hdd and ram ;) )
4) Put Ram and Hdd again
5) restarted the machine and everything is fine again

hope it helps

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This appears to be relatively common and I have done it to myself twice. The fix is to reset the laptop: (1) unplug the battery, (2) start the machine without the battery connected, (3) shut down, (4) reconnect the battery, (5) restart the machine.

On machines with externally accessed batteries this is pretty painless.

My machine has an internal non-user replaceable battery (stupid). For these machines, remove the back cover; it's held on with several screws and then has clips retaining the cover. After removing the screws, starting in the front, work your way around the edges gently separating the cover for the rest of the machine. Once the cover is removed, you will see the battery pack with its multi-wire plug coming off the battery. Disconnect that plug from the circuit card it's attached to. (If you did this right, the machine will not start since the external power isn't connected.) Plug your machine in to external power and boot it up. After it starts, shut down, reconnect the battery, start again. It should work fine. Shut down again, reassemble the back cover, and try to start on battery power. Sometimes the battery plug can move during reassembly and the machine won't start on battery. If that happens, go back and check the plug again. Once you have confirmed everything is working properly, reinstall the back cover and its screws. You're done. Make sure you touch something metal to ground yourself before messing with the battery plug.

This is really easy and will save you $75.00 USD or more depending on how bad the shop you take it to rapes you. My local shop charged me $90 and then made a point of telling me how difficult it was. The second time I did it, I decided to try it on my own and it took 15 minutes to do.

Cover the hole when not in use to prevent recurrence.
 
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