What is wrong with my laptop?
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Drewseph (
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October 10th, 2010
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I put the charger in three different outlets but the light on the laptop that signals whether or not it is charging is not going on, and my battery is very weak. This happened to my last charger but I got a new one and recently it’s been working, but not now.
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How old is the battery? My guess is that is the part that needs replacing.
I think 1 year… I’m taking it to Best Buy now to check it. Thanks…
Check that the outlet is good. I tried to charge my cell phone overnight a couple of weeks ago on my usual kitchen outlet, only to find in the morning that the GFCI had tripped the circuit for some reason.
I’m afraid that I have a problem with my laptop, too, because I have a replacement battery that’s just over a year old, seldom gets used, and won’t hold a charge for more than ten minutes. Either the replacement battery was not new (possible) and was already aged, or the new battery was defective in some fundamental way (less likely, I think) or the power supply / charging unit in the computer that monitors battery status and charge is failing (which is what I suspect).
But since it’s a leased computer from my employer, I’ll let them figure it out when it fails completely. I can lead those horses to water and show them it’s water and how nice it is, but I can’t get them to realize that it’s drinkable.
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