Hi David,
Sorry to hear of your problems. In my experience, when you buy a replacement battery, it is already charged. If this is the case, it would seem that the power is not getting delivered to your laptop. There is a battery level detection mechanism in laptops that will shut it down when the battery gets too low. This system needs to be calibrated by letting the battery run down completely and then get recharged. It is possible that in your case the shutdown kicks in before the laptop even starts. Just a thought. Perhaps others might have more inputs. You might want to post the brand and model number so others with experience for that model might join in.
Peter Shkabara
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Subject: Laptop charge circuit?
I usually use it plugged in, but it would sometimes be nice not to have to. When the PC first arrived, positioning the cursor over the battery icon in the system tray would produce the message "No battery detected". Since it was a refurb, I was only a little disappointed to think that it had come without a battery installed -- I hunted on eBay and found an aftermarket battery for this model....
I was surprised to find, when I went to install my new battery, that there was in fact something installed in the battery socket, something labelled as if it were a battery. I assumed it was defective/non-working, removed it and installed my replacement. Sure enough, the message no longer says "No battery detected"...
Instead, it correctly reports that the machine is "plugged in" and "charging". But the available battery power never varies from "0%", and when I unplug it, the machine won't power on. Is my replacement battery also defective, but in a different way? Or is there some problem with the recharge circuit in the laptop? Or is there some other problem, and how might I fix it?
The machine is pleasantly powerful, if a little heavy, but most places where I want to use a computer and have AC power available, I also have access to an even more powerful desktop computer. So mobility is he main thing this machine has going for it -- or is supposed to...
David Gillett
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