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I have quite an odd problem with my laptop. It quit charging the battery but is still somehow running off the adapter. However, if I remove the battery it doesn't turn on at all. I have been using the computer for about a week like this. The battery meter in windows says the batery is at 91% (6400 hrs and 38 minutes!) I thought it was the power jack on the motherboard so I replaced it but it is still doing the same thing! Any ideas?
By the way, I am currently using a universal adaptor that I got at Best Buy (rocket fish). Could this be the problem? I've been using it for five months and it was working just fine.
Name: aegis1 Date: March 7, 2009 at 21:41:10 Pacific
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You don't think the battery has died? How old is it? Batteries do wear out.
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Response Number 2
Name: allamerican1985 Date: March 7, 2009 at 21:52:32 Pacific
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The battery is less than a year old and it was lasting 5 hours before this started happening. I would have suspect the battery but the computer will not funtion with just the power adapter pluged. The battery doesn't seem to be the porblem.
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