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Posted by Frank Slootweg on August 31, 2005, 7:41 pm
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> > > I friend has a HP ZV5000 laptop and is having probs with the battery.
> > > She has it fully charged - it says its charged 100%
> > > BUT - if you pull the power connector, with the laptop on + full
> > > battery,
> > > it just shuts itself off -
> > > I've not had a chance to look at it,
> > > as we were using it to do some data transcribing work at the time.
> > > It could be a totally bad battery, but I think she said it was replaced.
> > > It could be some weird power meter setting, but I didn't look.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas or suggestions to pursue ?
> >
> > I had this exact same scenario on my laptop and the battery was indeed
> > defective. It showed the same problem in an other laptop of the same
> > type and after replacing the battery my laptop again worked fine.
>
> Have the same problem here.
> Did you buy a replacement battery from HP or another third party vendor?
I got a replacement battery from HP. Probably the fact that I worked
for them for 35 years had something to do with that! :-)
> Any place you recommend?
Just Google the *product* 'number' [1] of the battery and see where
that leads you. For me it gave several places to chose from.
[1] Probably letter-four_digits-letter, in my case F2019B.
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