Toshiba Satallite Pro A300

[Fraz Qureshi]

I have a Toshiba Satalite Pro A300 Laptop which I brought about 4 years ago and hardly used before it started giving me problems. Unfortunately for me the problem occured a few weeks after the 1 year waranty expired! The problem is that the battery is dead and it doesnt chagre via the A/c mains. I had the battery and A/c lead checked and they have not fault in them, I also changed the A/c Jack which didnt solve the problem either. What sometimes happens is that when I connect the A/c lead, it starts charging the battery but as soon as i switch on the laptop, it stops charging the battery and so the laptop runs until the battery runs dead.
My friends A/c lead and battery work fine on his laptop which is the same and when I use them on my laptop I still have the same problem so this confirms that A/c lead and battery are not at fault.
I have been to a few laptop shops and they were unable to decipher what the fault is either.
I would apprecite any suggestions or solutions you may have, thanks

 

[TriplexDread]

It could well be the electronic charging circuit within the laptop. They are sometimes built around an optoisolator but could be a multitude of things tbh

Basically the circuit that controls the charging isnt functioning properly. The nasty thing is it aint a separate board, they are built into main laptop board as far as im aware. And multiple layer circuits using surface mount devices are a nightmare


defo a repair jobby im afraid

i have used someone recently to buy an inverter for my laptop. I wont post link but it you want it let me know and i will send it via a PM. They seem very reasonable and if they cant find prob they dont charge anything but postage back to you

 

[Fraz Qureshi]

I have had a tough time finding a Laptop repair shop that is able to diagnose and fix my laptop.

If you can PM the link then I will look into it.

Thank you,
Fraz Qureshi

 

[TriplexDread]

Unable to send you PM's at present. It might be because your a fairly new user
Heres the link

http://www.laptopsockets.co.uk/fixed price repair.htm

 

[Fraz Qureshi]

Thank you