Thanks Mark for your reply, Upon going in to clean the connections with my eraser, I noticed that one of the prongs on the laptop side has broken out. Can this be easily replaced? Since the client does have two batteries, I am thinking about getting a soldering iron and attaching a prong from the older battery. But since this is "beyond my comfort zone" I am seeking second opionions before getting out in deep water and saying "oops." With Warm Regard, William On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:52:10 -0800 Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]> writes: > The eraser just is an excellent way to clean the contacts. It won't > hurt > anything.You may just have a bad battery. The only way you can check > that > is to try another one. However the first thing to do is to put a > meter on > the charger to make sure it is putting out the correct volts. > > Mark Rode > The NOSPIN Group > > > > rubber eraser would enhance / correct > >it enough to allow it to hold a charge and function properly. This > is a > >trick I learned from radio school and I am not sure if it would be > the > >wisest thing to attempt in this situation. > >William Council > > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to > Digest mode - visit our web site: > http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml New Vision Enterprises: Here... There are Heroes www.NewVisionEnterprises.net ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml