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Posted by Barry Watzman on June 9, 2006, 9:48 am
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Even though you bought a 2nd battery (a used battery ... very
important), my bet would be more that the batteries are bad than that
the laptop is bad. But it's still quite possible that the charging
circuit in the laptop is bad. The only way to know for sure is to try a
known good battery (any used battery bought on E-Bay is, unfortunately,
suspect). Two hours is about all that you can expect from a fully
charged new battery. That laptop normally came with a 2487 series
battery (PA2487U-xx was the actualy p/n), but it will also take the
higher capacity 3107 series battery (which is nothing but a higher
capacity 2487).
Jeff wrote:
> Toshiba Satellite 2805-S503 several years old won't charge the battery.
> The LED flashes amber (it's lit for most of a second, off for only a
> very small fraction of a second, repeat). Power Meter in Control Panel
> shows the battery at 3%. I bought a replacement battery on ebay, Power
> Meter shows that at 35% but it never increases and the LED flashes the
> same way.
>
> I remember when it was new the battery never really lasted very long,
> two hours maybe. I ran it from AC quite a lot (without removing the
> battery - I'd never heard that you should until reading this group this
> morning).
>
> Figure something is wrong with the charging circuitry? Any way to
> diagnose this?
>
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