power regulation problem w/ laptop

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I'm not really sure where this belongs. I figured it would be more of a hardware question than a general laptop question.

I've got a fujitsu tablet pc. The power adapter is rated for 100-240V at 1.4-07A and 50-60hz. It's the original power adapter for this model. I've got two of them which are identical.

I live in the US, but when I first took this computer to Europe (France specifically) and I plugged it in, it should have been just fine, since France is 230v @ 50hz. But often times it would start vibrating on the wrist rest just over where the hard drive is, and I would get shocked every few minutes while typing. My solution was to just charge it and then use it unplugged. I dealt with this for about a month. It never did any damage to anything, but it was annoying.

I've since replaced the hard drive to a bigger and faster one (80gb 5400rpm to 320gb 7200rpm) but everything else is still the same.

Now I'm noticing w/ the power adapter, not sure if it was the same one I took w/ me to France, that it sometimes does this to a lesser degree here in the US.

I'm not sure if this is a problem w/ the adapter or w/ the computer itself, but it's annoying.

Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Hsv_Man]

I had a laptop come to me with a power problem as it would start then stop charging (totally irrelevant but) what i did was plug in an identical asus charger and the computer ran perfectly. Personally i would go out and buy a new cord for the laptop ($10-$20) before looking into any damage possibly caused to the laptop itself which could get quite expensive if you catch my drift.