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Recently I thought the batteries in my laptop had died as they simply
will not hold a charge. I resigned myself to using it on AC power
rather than costly battery replacement (BTW...are there 3rd party
batteries for this laptop rathen than OEM Dell?).
Now I find that with the batteries inserted the power pack will die at
boot up. I can see the green LED on the power pack adapter fade out,
the internal battery indicator on the laptop turns warning orange, and
the laptop dies due to power failure.
If I remove the batteries (and I also must remove the power cable,
then plug it back in for the green LED to re-light), and boot with AC
power only (no batteries installed) it comes up fine.
So...are the batteries shorted and killing the system, or is it
possible the power circuit has a problem causing this apparent
short-out?
TIA
Recently I thought the batteries in my laptop had died as they simply
will not hold a charge. I resigned myself to using it on AC power
rather than costly battery replacement (BTW...are there 3rd party
batteries for this laptop rathen than OEM Dell?).
Now I find that with the batteries inserted the power pack will die at
boot up. I can see the green LED on the power pack adapter fade out,
the internal battery indicator on the laptop turns warning orange, and
the laptop dies due to power failure.
If I remove the batteries (and I also must remove the power cable,
then plug it back in for the green LED to re-light), and boot with AC
power only (no batteries installed) it comes up fine.
So...are the batteries shorted and killing the system, or is it
possible the power circuit has a problem causing this apparent
short-out?
TIA