I have a great older laptop 6510 that was working great. I booted it up this morning and all was working fine.
I went to plug in a printer into what I THOUGHT was the USB port but actually was a SATA port. As soon as I plugged it in, the screen went dead and laptop shut down.
Now I can't get it to start again. Pushing the power button and the light comes on for about 5 seconds, then shuts down. No sound of disk spinning or any other activity, no lights except the power light comes on.
Thought maybe the battery was down so plugged in the charger. Charging light comes on for 1 1/2 seconds, then shuts off. So I assume it's not charging. Removed the battery and put it back in and got same results the several times I tried it.
EDIT: Just looked at the port again and it indicates it could be used as either a USB or an eSATA. The other end of the cable was already plugged into the printer when I plugged it into the laptop.
What did I do?