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February 28th, 2022 12:00
Thunderbolt 4 charging
I have an Inspiron 16 plus 7610 with a breeze block in the middle of the cable to charge it. Surely there was a much easier USB cable to instead use and the online manual led me to believe I could use the USB-C port to charge it. I tried several different types of cables including the ones Dell supplied with my PC monitor but to no avail. Further research, including looking at the actual port itself,(duh) led me to believe I would need a Thunderbolt 4 cable to charge it so bought a CalDigit .8m (short I know, but....trial & error first) Alas still no joy, have I missed something or is my laptop just not set up for correctly?
ejn63
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February 28th, 2022 12:00
Are you trying to charge the system while powered on or off?
Whether you can use a Thunderbolt4 adapter to run the system depends on the configuration you have. With Intel integrated video only, you can. With the nVidia GPU, you need the original adapter -- the Thunderbolt port cannot power the system.
You may be able to charge the battery by Thunderbolt4 with the system powered off in both cases.
nyc10036
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February 28th, 2022 12:00
what is a breeze block?
YorkieTony
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February 28th, 2022 13:00
My system is nVidia so I accept that, so I will try to charge while powered off. I didn't know you could do that!
YorkieTony
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February 28th, 2022 13:00
It's a large grey building block, 440mm x 215mm x 100mm, I was being sarcastic.