Hi Terry, > The laptop will no longer charge ;-(
Is it just that the battery never gets charged, or does the laptop indicate a problem with the charging? > I have measured the voltage at the two outside pins on the battery > connector, (both powered and unpowered) and I get zero volts. Is this socket for the connector with the nine coloured wires? Perhaps the charging circuit only supplies measurable power when a protocol is followed across those wires; something the battery can do. Is there a service manual which gives more precise directions for this kind of diagnostics? > Charging worked prior to the BIOS battery issue, so I'm assuming that, > at some point, the circuits got blown during diagnostics. Does it look like your original battery? > Does anyone have any comment on this? Whilst working through this latest problem, continue to use the laptop plugged into the mains so any other issues also come to light. Otherwise, you might labour to fix this one problem only to then find later ones which meant you wouldn't have bothered. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- 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
