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From: clowtown on 29 Jan 2008 20:51
My laptop battery recently stopped being able to be charged.
* The LED will not light to show that it is charging.
*it will boot up for a while until the battery dies.
* The laptop will not turn on if the battery is removed and is plugged
in with power supply
* power supply led is lit

I had a friend test a few things and he said that another power supply
did not charge the battery either, and also said that my DC jack
seemed to be firmly connected to the board still.

A side note, I did see a small spark of electricity jump from my dc
jack to my power adapter the last time I remember everything working
correctly, would the MB be hosed? or just some circuitry?

I'm thinking about soldering a new dc jack to the board or buying a
Portbar III which can supposedly supply power through another cable.

Does anybody have any ideas or think this Portbar has any chance of
being a quick fix for my problem?

From: Venom on 31 Jan 2008 00:31

"clowtown" <clowtown(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:25550ee1-0125-4586-adf3-de86b081119e(a)b2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> My laptop battery recently stopped being able to be charged.
> * The LED will not light to show that it is charging.
> *it will boot up for a while until the battery dies.
> * The laptop will not turn on if the battery is removed and is plugged
> in with power supply
> * power supply led is lit
>
> I had a friend test a few things and he said that another power supply
> did not charge the battery either, and also said that my DC jack
> seemed to be firmly connected to the board still.
>
> A side note, I did see a small spark of electricity jump from my dc
> jack to my power adapter the last time I remember everything working
> correctly, would the MB be hosed? or just some circuitry?
>
> I'm thinking about soldering a new dc jack to the board or buying a
> Portbar III which can supposedly supply power through another cable.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas or think this Portbar has any chance of
> being a quick fix for my problem?
>
>
Did it occur to you that your battery might be dead?


From: Mick Sitton on 31 Jan 2008 06:12

"Venom" <Venom(a)Mailhouse.com> wrote in message
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>
> "clowtown" <clowtown(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:25550ee1-0125-4586-adf3-de86b081119e(a)b2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> My laptop battery recently stopped being able to be charged.
>> * The LED will not light to show that it is charging.
>> *it will boot up for a while until the battery dies.
>> * The laptop will not turn on if the battery is removed and is plugged
>> in with power supply
>> * power supply led is lit
>>
>> I had a friend test a few things and he said that another power supply
>> did not charge the battery either, and also said that my DC jack
>> seemed to be firmly connected to the board still.
>>
>> A side note, I did see a small spark of electricity jump from my dc
>> jack to my power adapter the last time I remember everything working
>> correctly, would the MB be hosed? or just some circuitry?
>>
>> I'm thinking about soldering a new dc jack to the board or buying a
>> Portbar III which can supposedly supply power through another cable.
>>
>> Does anybody have any ideas or think this Portbar has any chance of
>> being a quick fix for my problem?
>>
>>
> Did it occur to you that your battery might be dead?
>
>
more likely that spark fried the regulator, which can be replaced. Similar
thing happened to my Dell C600 (power surge)


From: Arno Wagner on 31 Jan 2008 07:47
Previously clowtown <clowtown(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My laptop battery recently stopped being able to be charged.
> * The LED will not light to show that it is charging.
> *it will boot up for a while until the battery dies.
> * The laptop will not turn on if the battery is removed and is plugged
> in with power supply
> * power supply led is lit

> I had a friend test a few things and he said that another power supply
> did not charge the battery either, and also said that my DC jack
> seemed to be firmly connected to the board still.

> A side note, I did see a small spark of electricity jump from my dc
> jack to my power adapter the last time I remember everything working
> correctly, would the MB be hosed? or just some circuitry?

> I'm thinking about soldering a new dc jack to the board or buying a
> Portbar III which can supposedly supply power through another cable.

> Does anybody have any ideas or think this Portbar has any chance of
> being a quick fix for my problem?

Sounds like a dead battery. You can ignore the spark, power circuitry
is not sensitive to ESD.

Arno
From: clowtown on 31 Jan 2008 08:19
On Jan 29, 11:31 pm, "Venom" <Ve...(a)Mailhouse.com> wrote:
> "clowtown" <clowt...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:25550ee1-0125-4586-adf3-de86b081119e(a)b2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> > My laptop battery recently stopped being able to be charged.
> > * The LED will not light to show that it is charging.
> > *it will boot up for a while until the battery dies.
> > * The laptop will not turn on if the battery is removed and is plugged
> > in with power supply
> > * power supply led is lit
>
> > I had a friend test a few things and he said that another power supply
> > did not charge the battery either, and also said that my DC jack
> > seemed to be firmly connected to the board still.
>
> > A side note, I did see a small spark of electricity jump from my dc
> > jack to my power adapter the last time I remember everything working
> > correctly, would the MB be hosed? or just some circuitry?
>
> > I'm thinking about soldering a new dc jack to the board or buying a
> > Portbar III which can supposedly supply power through another cable.
>
> > Does anybody have any ideas or think this Portbar has any chance of
> > being a quick fix for my problem?
>
> Did it occur to you that your battery might be dead?

The battery isn't dead, otherwise the pc wouldn't boot at all. But
thanks for the tip :\
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