How fucked am I?The charging cable of my Lenovo Thinkpad E14 Gen 2 kinda wore down after years of usage and I used it for longer than I should have. Basically there were a few tiny wires sticking out of it in the end, at the common breakpoint near the USB-C connector that goes into the laptop and when I used it on my phone and laptop it kinda sparked a few times. Now my laptop is not turning on at all anymore. The red Thinkpad LED isn't working, the power button isn't lighting up no matter what I do, the charging indicator LED also doesn't light up and obviously the laptop isn't charging but I only have the broken charger currently. It sparked once when I moved the laptop around with the cable inside so I think that's when it happened but it didn't turn off right away, it worked on battery for a while until I closed it and when I tried turning it back on in the morning it was dead.Be honest, how bad is it probably? I can only go to a repair shop in about a week but do you think there's a chance to revive it with a replacement charging cable? If the laptop itself is cooked, can I still recover the data? Some of it is kinda very important.
>>108714193was your laptop already charged when it sparked? or was the battery dead?
>>108714193Get another charger to test and remove the battery entirely while testing
charging via usb-c is so dumb
>>108714207It was probably somewhere between 30-60% I guess, I just wanted to work for a bit longer so I plugged it in.>>108714229Alright I'll try when I get one.
Oh maybe on thing to add: the charging cable works so it's not that (probably). Unless it just doesn't deliver enough power anymore to get a reaction out of the laptop. Because I used it on my phone before I noticed that my laptop died and it was charging it just fine.
>>108714268>Unless it just doesn't deliver enough power anymore to get a reaction out of the laptop.it's probably this, and the cable will soon cease to work with your phone, too. just get a new cable
>>108714258if the laptop was supposed to still have some battery power left but it isn't turning on, then i would assume something bad happened
>>108714296I was surprised that it didn't turn on yeah. Even when it's basically on 0% I can still get it to turn on and have like 30 seconds to plug the charger in before it turns off again and as I said there's no beeping/lights anything. But I can't really say for sure. What's the worst case in your opinion and is the data still recoverable? Oh and what should I expect at a repair shop? Just to not get scammed.>>108714279I hope it's that but isn't there a way to get a reaction/signal out of a laptop even if the battery is basically dead to see if the machine itself is functioning?
>>108714328>is the data still recoverableyes as long as you don't have drive encryption enabled then you can remove the storage and use an adapter to make it work with another computer>What's the worst case in your opinionit's possible the laptop can be repaired. i would not worry about data loss since usually power surges don't reach that far
>>108714328>Oh and what should I expect at a repair shop? Just to not get scammed.well before you even go to a repair shop, you should try everything you can on your own first. get a new cable and try using the laptop without the battery plugged in. if that doesn't work, then you can get it repaired. remove the hard drive before you give it to them so they don't steal your files. just let them know that you removed it so they aren't confused. they would still be able to boot into the laptop BIOS without the hard drive so there is no reason for them to need the hard drive in the laptop
>>108714193Try phone charger or any other usb-c charger. Thinkpad will charge with whatever charger just very slowly. If no charging light something got fried on the mbo.
