Timeline for Troubleshooting and fixing laptop battery charging issues [closed]
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| Jun 22 at 10:39 | history | closed |
Giacomo1968 Toto music2myear Blindspots Joep van Steen |
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| Jun 19 at 16:18 | comment | added | Clint William Theron | Understood. I'll through it away! | |
| Jun 19 at 15:16 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek♦ | Well, batteries are gloriously inflammable. Replacing batteries are better than replacing your home and its contents. | |
| Jun 19 at 14:22 | vote | accept | Clint William Theron | ||
| Jun 12 at 2:20 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12 at 1:57 | history | edited | Clint William Theron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12 at 1:13 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12 at 0:49 | comment | added | Clint William Theron | I was hoping for a engineering solution. Obviously, my first thought was to replace it. That's troubleshooting 101. | |
| Jun 12 at 0:44 | history | edited | Clint William Theron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11 at 23:52 | answer | added | music2myear | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 11 at 23:50 | comment | added | music2myear | Batteries, even internal batteries, are relatively simple to replace. Purchase a new battery if your laptop is otherwise working fine. There are limits on the value of support we can offer here for hardware issues, but, in this case at least, it is simple: replace your battery. | |
| Jun 11 at 23:36 | history | edited | Clint William Theron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11 at 22:53 | comment | added | Mokubai♦ | The "small black component" could be a diode or fuse, and we can't guess without knowing exact make and model and someone with electronics knowledge would need the battery in front of them and even if the problem is that component it would require more than a multimeter to replace. Either take it to a repair shop or buy a new one, though a repair shop would likely charge more than the cost of a new battery. | |
| Jun 11 at 22:41 | comment | added | Clint William Theron | It's older than 4 years. I had an experiment where I kept the charger on for a few months to see if the battery would last. I guess my experiment broke it. I was just wondering, since the cells are showing +14 volts if there's a chance I could fix it. | |
| Jun 11 at 22:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 11 at 22:11 | comment | added | Mokubai♦ | Batteries die. Replace it. Just because you have some voltages at particular points doesn't mean that the battery is healthy. It might have a whisker internally that makes contact when warm or current is drawn and so the laptop can't draw current from it. Batteries are not like other solid electronic parts, they are a constantly deteriorating chemical reaction and if the battery is more than 4 years old and starts to have problems then the best you can do is send it to a recycling place and buy a new one. | |
| Jun 11 at 22:06 | comment | added | music2myear | What laptop model? How old is it? Batteries fail and die, often far sooner than the rest of the laptop. What led up to this failure? Was it a sudden failure, working fine one day and not at all the next, or did it slowly lose ability to hold a charge, or something else? Please EDIT your post to add this and any other information helpful to our understanding your situation. | |
| S Jun 11 at 21:51 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jun 11 at 21:51 | history | asked | Clint William Theron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |