Laptop Battery is Weird

[Guest]

I have a laptop with xp maybe a year and a half old and a new battery.
However, I cannot turn on my laptop without directly plugging it into an
outlet. Everytime I take the plug out, my laptop turns off immediately. On my
taskbar, it says: Charging 67%. Its been saying that for like a couple days
now even though I have been charging it. Whats wrong and how do I fix it?
Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Contact the manufacturer of your laptop for technical support.

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| I have a laptop with xp maybe a year and a half old and a new battery.
| However, I cannot turn on my laptop without directly plugging it into an
| outlet. Everytime I take the plug out, my laptop turns off immediately. On my
| taskbar, it says: Charging 67%. Its been saying that for like a couple days
| now even though I have been charging it. Whats wrong and how do I fix it?
| Thanks

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You buy a new battery for the notebook unfortunately. Sometimes they fail.

 

[John R Weiss]

I have a laptop with xp maybe a year and a half old and a new battery.
However, I cannot turn on my laptop without directly plugging it into an
outlet. Everytime I take the plug out, my laptop turns off immediately. On my
taskbar, it says: Charging 67%. Its been saying that for like a couple days
now even though I have been charging it. Whats wrong and how do I fix it?

Battery has failed. Replace it.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:39:29 -0700, xtrememjy

I have a laptop with xp maybe a year and a half old and a new battery.
However, I cannot turn on my laptop without directly plugging it into an
outlet. Everytime I take the plug out, my laptop turns off immediately. On my
taskbar, it says: Charging 67%. Its been saying that for like a couple days
now even though I have been charging it. Whats wrong and how do I fix it?

It's yet another dirty little laptop secret; batteries die after a few
years, and cost a bloody fortune to replace.

Older battery technologies may respond to being fully discharged, then
charged up afresh. But a flat battery, especially if ill in certain
ways, can pull so much current that it kills the power circuitry
(within the PSU annd laptop mobo) and can even constitute a fire
hazard - so you accept that double-zero if rolling those dice.

The CQ suckage scale:
1) Does not suck
2) Sucks
3) Blows chunks
4) Blows chunks out both ends
5) Fire hazard

Yep, laptops can suck right to the top of the scale.

The tragedy is when folks by proprietary brand name desktop PCs that
are as crippled as laptops in various ways, even down to battery
dependencies just to avoid keyboard and mouse cables.

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