stubborn battery

I have my laptop plugged in and downloading all day and
all night and the battery isn't gaining any charge, but I
know there is nothing wrong with the battery itself. How
do I make it charge the battery?

How do you know there's nothing wrong with the battery? If the battery isn't charging you have a bad DC board or a bad battery.

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<salingon@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:05c901c3b9fb$258d4150$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have my laptop plugged in and downloading all day and
> all night and the battery isn't gaining any charge, but I
> know there is nothing wrong with the battery itself. How
> do I make it charge the battery?

<salingon@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:05c901c3b9fb$258d4150$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have my laptop plugged in and downloading all day and
> all night and the battery isn't gaining any charge, but I
> know there is nothing wrong with the battery itself. How
> do I make it charge the battery?

What laptop and how do you know the battery is good?
Have you tried another known good battery?

salingon@hotmail.com wrote:
> I have my laptop plugged in and downloading all day and
> all night and the battery isn't gaining any charge, but I
> know there is nothing wrong with the battery itself. How
> do I make it charge the battery?

Your laptop's battery charger may not be strong enough to charge
the battery while running heavy apps.

My Toshiba Satellite, for example, will not charge the battery while
it is running an app (Prime95) which is floating-point intensive;
George Woltman added a new feature (at my suggestion) to Prime95
to inhibit execution unless the battery charge was above X%, which very
neatly solved the problem.

So, before replacing the battery, I suggest that you stop the
downloading and all other CPU-intensive apps to see if your charger
then makes progress on the battery.
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Cheers, Bob