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Posted by cmsan on February 8, 2008, 9:57 pm
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Typo/correction in one sentence: "Since then I've gotten the computer to
turn on once or twice, but never when the battery was in." THAT SHOULD SAY,
COMPUTER HAS NEVER SO FAR TURNED ON WHEN THE BATTERY WAS *OUT.*
> Hi there all, does this sound like the computer has a basic problem and
> should just be scrapped or like a simple battery or adapter replacement
> issue? I don't want to spend over $100 on a new battery and adapter just
> to find out it doesn't fix the problem anyway. If noone can give an
> answer, I will try to follow-up with my own information and attempts to
> fix etc to help anyone else with a computer with the same symptoms....
>
> All of the following problem description is with the adapter plugged in,
> because we only use it that way since for the last few months the battery
> has seemed to not be holding a charge of any consequence, like say less
> than 10 minutes of life if unplugged:
>
> MODEL: Compaq V2000 Series laptop, a little over two years old.
>
> PROBLEM: Computer only occasionally will turn on, even when plugged in,
> and little battery recharge light flashes 3 times, meaning battery needs
> to charge. (But it's supposed to work even with no battery in it if
> plugged in is my understanding so this is one side of the mystery.)
>
> So the first symptom was it started just turning off out of the blue in
> the middle of someone using it, like clicking etc even though it was
> plugged in. Then when it was turned back on it would say that it had a
> power problem and had to hibernate (though again it was plugged in).
>
> Prior to this the battery life had been getting worse and worse day by
> day over the last say month or two. In the last few days it can't last
> more than a couple minutes off the adapter, and right now, when
> successfully turned on, the charge level will show 100% seemingly always,
> apparently right up until the computer turns itself off saying it needs
> to charge the battery (even though plugged in). The battery *seems* to
> be in a defunct state, but my understanding is the laptop should still
> work fine when plugged in even if the battery is bad...
>
> For the last week or so, it seems that the computer cannot be turned on
> unless the battery charge light is on (again all of this is while plugged
> in). Prior to last night, I would unplug and replug the adapter to try
> to get this to happen when it wouldn't turn on and that would work.
> Usually I'd have to unplug it and replug it once and the light would come
> on. Last night that method stopped working, or became something that
> works only occasionally.
>
> Last night also, when I finally succeeded in getting it to turn on (on a
> successful re-plug of the adapter and the charge light finally coming
> on), I noticed the battery light was flashing almost the entire time it
> was turned on, but not during the first couple minutes. This flashing
> continued the entire time I was using it. I don't recall ever seeing a
> flashing battery light when the computer was new even if it wasn't
> plugged in and the battery was low and am not sure what that is supposed
> to mean. If it means that the battery is getting low and the machine will
> be forced to power down soon, that didn't seem to happen at least for say
> 20 minutes or so I was using the computer. The flashing just continued
> over that entire time.
>
> The compaq web site says that the computer should always work with the
> adapter plugged in, even with the battery *removed.*
>
> I took out the battery last night to see if the computer would actually
> work better while plugged in then, but it didn't, it again would not turn
> on at all. Since then I've gotten the computer to turn on once or twice,
> but never when the battery was in.
>
> Also, forgot to mention, when I try to turn on the computer (again, all
> of this is while plugged in to the adapter) the charge light flashes
> three times. This was the normal behavior when it was new that meant "the
> battery needs to be charged, please plug it in." Of course the computer
> is plugged in right now when this happens. When I try to turn on the
> computer with the battery pack completely removed, nothing whatsoever
> happens and I've never been able to start it that way. Last night I did
> successfully run the computer with the battery pack removed for at least
> a number of minutes after the computer had been successfully turned on
> (while the computer was not *turned on* with the battery removed, it did
> *keep running* after "hot removing" the battery).
>
> I'm guessing the most cost effective thing to try is a new adapter, but I
> somehow doubt that will fix the problem, and I don't really want to throw
> money down the toilet on things if this computer is dead.
>
> Opinions?
>
>
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