On 08/10/2024 11:53, Terry Coles wrote:
The new battery arrived today and the laptop is now working again. I'm just charging the main battery and then it should be as good as new!!
Spoke too soon ;-( The laptop will no longer charge ;-( I have posted a picture of the innards of the machine, which shows that the battery is connected to the correct place: https://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Screenshot%20from%202024-10-09.jpg If you look carefully at the area adjacent to the large '+' and '-' symbols on the battery itself, you will see that they are just below the battery connector. I have measured the voltage at the two outside pins on the battery connector, (both powered and unpowered) and I get zero volts. I'm assuming that the symbols point to the relevant battery terminals, so it looks like the charging circuit is toast. Charging worked prior to the BIOS battery issue, so I'm assuming that, at some point, the circuits got blown during diagnostics. That is unlikely to be an easy fix, (and certainly not cheap), because the charging circuit is on the motherboard. Does anyone have any comment on this? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-10-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
