Just got my first laptop, and my wife likes using it on battery in her favorite chair whereas I prefer to sit it on the coffee table plugged into the outlet. So we end up charging it up when I use it, and only draining it to between 90 and 50% or so when she uses it. Is this okay to do, should I fully drain it once a month or so, am I being too paranoid about taking care of it?
View 10 RepliesI mentioned in the subject my laptop won't start. I checked forums here and tried the offered solutions but nothing. My AC works fine, green light turns on when I plug it, and stays the same when I plug it to laptop. Laptop doesn't make any sounds...my led for battery on laptop doesn't work when I plug it on AC.
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View 5 Replies View Relatedfirst off my studio 1537 is 3 months old, so i cant return it. Secondly, when i plug in my laptop at around 70-90 percent it makes a wierd sound. So i unpluged the battery and the sound is gone. Is it a bad battery?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I'm watching flash video in Safari my battery life drops to 2-3 hours ... When I'm watching the same content in Firefox I'm good for another 5-6.
What is going on here and would Chrome resolve these issues? Yes I know I could try out Chrome for myself but I alone am not a good enough sample size for the question I'm asking.
At any rate, why does Firefox handle flash much better than Safari on OS X?
I have a Dell E4310, about 2 years old. When I connect the charger just to a power socket the green light on the charger comes on but when I plug the other end into the laptop the green light on the charger goes off, I have taken the battery off the laptop and it still does the same thing, and in both cases the laptop will not power up and no light appears on it.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI bought this inspiron 15r 5521. Its approx 2 year old. There was warning in battery status in the PC checkup. Few days afterwards the laptop did not start up. I searched and did a hard reset..BUT when i shut it down or hibernate . again its like dead and i have to plug in the power cord for 20 min and do a hard reset to turn it on . It also happens that if i shut down while the power cord is plugged and i take it out and again plug it , it stops charging..(again need a hard reset).
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Over the past few weeks, I've been having an unusual problem. Whenever I plug the AC adapter to my laptop, the whole laptop performance - from the second I switch it on - is very slow. The moment I pull the AC adapter from the laptop, it instantly operates at a normal and fast speed again!
I figured that it must have been a problem with the AC adapter (it's had its fair share of use - being swung around and dragged to lectures...). So I ordered another one off Ebay. Today, I got the new adapter and when I plugged it in, the laptop only went on AC power. It worked fine - fast as normal. However, it was not charging - just on AC power. I am starting to question if the adapter was really as "genuine" like it was advertised on eBay. But anyway... after about 4 hours with the new adapter on AC power, it stopped recognizing the battery altogether and alerted me with a Critical Battery sign. Of course, a few minutes later, it went dead on me - the laptop switched off. It was as if I removed the AC adapter myself, only I hadn't. Now, I am trying to plug it in again (the new one), to see if it will be able to power up again and it just won't respond at all.
On the other hand, when I put the old AC adapter, the laptop switches on but doesn't charge. Again, it is extremely slow with the adapter on, and fast when I pull the wire out. Only for a minute or so until it dies on me again...
When I plug in an HDMI cable to my laptop the screen freezes and a black box forms around the screen. The only thing I can see is my desktop background image. Can't do anything, system is totally frozen. When I disconnect it everything works great again. What do I need to do? I'm using a HP ENVY DV7-7250us with WIN7 (64bit) installed ...
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I have tried to uninstall the USB drivers and reinstall them and this has not worked.
On mostly when my charge is 96% the charging light starts blinking red continuously , some thimes it does not charge the laptop too , but after some time it starts again.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just update my aspire 4745 BIOS version from 1.04 to 1.23. After that it making a big problem. If i plug in AC adapter it geting shut down. But if i turn on it without AC supply, it works perfectly. But if i try to turn on laptop after plagged AC supply, it not respons anything,
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was using my inspiron 1545 the other night and it was charging the battery, then i heard a pop from the left hand side of the keyboard. At this point i noticed that the battery icon no longer had the plug icon on top showing it was charging. I then looked at my power adapter and noticed the blue light was not on on the brick.
Finding this I unplugged the brick and then plugged it back in..POP from the laptop again....and the blue light on the brick went off again. This happens everytime.
So I am guessing there is something wrong in the laptop and the brick turns off maybe activating its short circuit mode protect. Obviously, this means I can not charge the battery.
If i remove the battery and try to run it on mains adapter it POPs as soon as you plug it in and the laptop won;t boot as it has no power...
Last night I was using my E1705 running on battery when the thing just suddenly zapped off. I had recently glanced at the battery meter which was 75% full. I pressed the button on the actual battery which shows 3 of 5 lights on the charge meter.
The battery itself is only 1 month old and has been performing flawlessly. I just thought it was something random so I plugged the machine in and it started up.
I didn't think anything else of it till today when I went to move my laptop, removed the power cord, and the laptop turned off. I checked the physical battery meter which still reads 3 of 5 lights .....
I have dell inspiron 5110 core i5. from last few days its giving continuous 8 beeps repeatedly before login screen appears. then it stops beeping . but sometime it keeps beeping after proper start up in repeated sets of 8 beeps ...before start up the beep sound come from laptop speakers then stops .but if continue to beep ..then sound only come in headsets . i have no problem with my laptop LCD display and neither i am using any external display.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedA friend gave me his HP Laptop to look at. When the power button is depressed, the power will cycle on/off repeatedly - on for 3 sec. off for 5 sec.
The only way to power down the laptop is to unplug the power cord and then remove the battery.
When the laptop is in the "power cycle" I will hear one "clunk" coming from the vicinity of the DVD player although it could be from the cooling fan.
There is absolutely no display and the only way I have found to break the power cycling without removing the cord and battery is to depress the LEFT SIDE CTL & ALT keys 4 times as the power cycle is first begining. This will cause the power to remain on. However, NOTING else will happen. No display, nothing loading from bios or HD etc. I can open the DVD drive and insert a CD/DVD and the drive will wind up but nothing will happen.
The exact same thing will occur with the RAM alternated or removed completely. It will also occur with the HD removed. It also occurs with the RAM & the HD removed at the same time.
Dell Vostro 1320 won't boot:
Switch on. Fan starts. Fan stops. Num lock key flashes on and off rapidly and repeatedly.Nothing else.
Have: Cleaned keyboard. Removed/reinstalled RAMRemoved/reinstalled HD
What next?
I have an aspire 3510 which when switched on goes straight into a loop of turning on for 2 seconds (the fan starts) then turning off and repeating this on/off cycle continuously. It never gets to diplay anything on screen. I have tried the disconnect all power and press the power button for 60 seconds, replaced the memory and stripped the laptop down re seating the cpu and cleaning the fan.
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View 2 Replies View Relatedi have a dell inspiron 3000s laptop, the machines felt and the screen & data cable are broken so when i power on the machine is giving 8 beeps repeatedly and the machines does not display what could be the problem.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI was interested in purchasing a new battery for my Dell XPS M1530, and I'm interested in the 7200mAh/80Whr 9 CELL! Replacement Laptop Battery For Dell XPS M1530 RU006 TK330-SKU:LE3.
I was wondering if the original battery charger provided with my laptop will be compatible with this battery for charging it?
i had this inspiron 1520 for a while now and everything is good but for the last 3 months,
my has been standing by when the bar hits 55%. i've checked the battery settings and it's supposed to alarm me when it hits 10% and only standby at 5% but idk why it's doing at 55%.
Do you leave your battery in while the laptop is being used with the AC adatper? Does this affect the battery life in any way? Definitely makes it lighter if its on your lap!
View 15 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell xps M1530 laptop. A few months ago my battery started to go. I just purchased a new one from Dell and it worked good for a few days then for some some reason the laptop won't run when it is not plugged into the AC adapter. I have tried unplugging the AC and taking the battery out and holding down the start button for 30 seconds and that didn't do anything. On the tool bar the battery shows its 100% fully charged and the lights on the battery itself also says it's fully charged.
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