troublesome laptop?

MFCGMFC

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hey all

got a weird problem here

Dell inspiron 1501 with xp

seems as if the battery dont wanna charge?

put in the AC adaptor and it'll power on but give a message saying

Please check ac adaptor, thanks

press any key to continue

is it just a virus or definetely hardware related?

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC
 
ok now the battery is starting to charge!

its been plugged in for since i posted this topic and its only at 6%?

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC
 
Almost definately a motherboard problem. I used to have one of them and went through 3 mobo's in the end. very similiar symptoms.
 
Is that all it says Gav, looking around there is some similar problems with Dell 1501's and it says it cant determine the power adapter, but that may be a different problem.
 
the 1501 got a custom power tip, M/B can tell if a legit dell charger is being used or not.

Apparently the issue is to dry solder points caused by over heating. The problem is not even near the power jack. I could get it to work for a while wiggling the power connectoring around but eventually it would just stop working or it would work on battery till the power was plugged in.
 
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