Charging a dead battery. Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () I just got a used TI/Acer 900T laptop loaded with W95. Windows runs, but I noticed after shudown that the lithium battery needed charging. It is still charging in the computer 5 days later....

be times you are making full use of your computer, screen on maximum brightness, playing songs on your dvd playing and charging a dead battery all at the same time. It is the charging of an discharged battery that just about doubles the power requirements....

Is there a way to fix/charge a dead battery?. Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () I have two compaq presario batteries, one shows at 6%, the other, aas uknown, that won't charge. Is there a way to fix these batteries so they will charge again, before...

to find the external display lit up saying "unable to charge", and had a dead battery. I'm not sure what the deal was but after I jiggled around the connector from the charger it started charging. It's happened a couple times since then, so to be on...

but I haven't > seen a notebook that's made dumb enough to get itself bush-whacked by a >dead battery for ten years. If a dead battery can affect a laptop, then > it's because the laptop's dc-converter (power board) is already bad, and > not the other...

dead. > mi-oldradios It would be a bad idea to use NiMH in there, but you can get bare LiIon cells for much cheaper than a branded battery pack. You have to be handy at soldering to repair it yourself though. I've replaced the dead batteries in a...

in message > news:n_1De.5806$oZ.448@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net... >> First it wouldn't charge from certain outlets, >> now it won't charge from any. >>>> What could be the problem? >>dead battery I recently thought I had a dead battery for...

I have been unable to charge it at all. The battery charge LED doesn't come on at all. Reading the "dead battery" thread, I see that this is a feature of Lithium ion charging circuitry with a completely discharged battery, so I may have trashed an expensive...

to wear out quickly, so if it's only going > to add 20 minutes or power, I'll probably skip it). >>> Thanks. The difference? 25 watts. heh. The 90W might come in handy if you do have two dead batteries charging while running the computer flat out...

dead. I've never been able to recharge a Dell battery pack that didn't start out with at least 1 LED lit up. On SOME laptops (Especially early Sharp laptops) a sufficiently dead battery DOES damage the charging circuit so that it can't charge even a...