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Old August 17th 11, 11:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

From: "Yousuf Khan"

On 17/08/2011 2:51 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
In all the notebooks, that's hundreds, I have managed only ONE notebook suffered from a
problem with the ability to charge the battery.


Okay then, so it's exceedingly rare, you're saying.

I think so based upon my experience. Its possible but not probable.

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  #17  
Old August 18th 11, 05:11 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

In ,
Yousuf Khan typed:
On 17/08/2011 2:51 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
In all the notebooks, that's hundreds, I have managed
only ONE notebook suffered from a problem with the
ability to charge the battery.


Interesting: I've seen bent/malformed tabs and pins, damage from attempted
forcing the battery and several other reasons, along with at least three
chargng ckt problems over the last 4 years or so. I've also seen drop-damage
now I think of it, and probably a few others, too. Newbies bring in a lot of
machines.
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Okay then, so it's exceedingly rare, you're saying.

Yousuf Khan




  #18  
Old August 18th 11, 06:37 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
BillW50
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

In ,
Twayne wrote:
In ,
Yousuf Khan typed:
On 17/08/2011 2:51 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
In all the notebooks, that's hundreds, I have managed
only ONE notebook suffered from a problem with the
ability to charge the battery.


Interesting: I've seen bent/malformed tabs and pins, damage from
attempted forcing the battery and several other reasons, along with
at least three chargng ckt problems over the last 4 years or so. I've
also seen drop-damage now I think of it, and probably a few others,
too. Newbies bring in a lot of machines.

Okay then, so it's exceedingly rare, you're saying.

Yousuf Khan


Yup, I have seen those too. And those of us, who fly a lot with our
laptops... also discovered that most of the time the aircraft only
supplies so much power per outlet and that is it. And laptops are pretty
good about adjusting for a lower wattage supply. And what they generally
do is to disable battery charging but the rest of the laptop works fine
otherwise.

That is another thing to check once you know the problem isn't the
battery. Remember I offered to send you a battery to check your computer
with. Anyway your AC power supply could also not put out all of the
amperage that it used too. In that case, the laptop will refuse to
charge the battery, but work fine otherwise.

--
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  #19  
Old August 18th 11, 06:59 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
BillW50
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In ,
BillW50 wrote:

Yup, I have seen those too. And those of us, who fly a lot with our
laptops... also discovered that most of the time the aircraft only
supplies so much power per outlet and that is it. And laptops are
pretty good about adjusting for a lower wattage supply. And what they
generally do is to disable battery charging but the rest of the
laptop works fine otherwise.

That is another thing to check once you know the problem isn't the
battery. Remember I offered to send you a battery to check your
computer with. Anyway your AC power supply could also not put out all
of the amperage that it used too. In that case, the laptop will
refuse to charge the battery, but work fine otherwise.


Oh yeah Yousuf, not only could I send you a battery to test, but I also
have AC power supplies too that I could send for you for testing. You
could email me by changing KOM to COM if you are interested.

--
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Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


  #20  
Old August 19th 11, 06:54 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

On 18/08/2011 1:59 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
BillW50 wrote:

Yup, I have seen those too. And those of us, who fly a lot with our
laptops... also discovered that most of the time the aircraft only
supplies so much power per outlet and that is it. And laptops are
pretty good about adjusting for a lower wattage supply. And what they
generally do is to disable battery charging but the rest of the
laptop works fine otherwise.

That is another thing to check once you know the problem isn't the
battery. Remember I offered to send you a battery to check your
computer with. Anyway your AC power supply could also not put out all
of the amperage that it used too. In that case, the laptop will
refuse to charge the battery, but work fine otherwise.


Oh yeah Yousuf, not only could I send you a battery to test, but I also
have AC power supplies too that I could send for you for testing. You
could email me by changing KOM to COM if you are interested.


Well, I ended up ordering a new battery online, and it came in today. I
put it in, and it's being successfully charged up. So my problem is
solved. Just wondering what caused the previous battery to fail in the
way that it did?

Yousuf Khan
  #21  
Old August 19th 11, 07:45 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 18/08/2011 1:59 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
BillW50 wrote:

Yup, I have seen those too. And those of us, who fly a lot with our
laptops... also discovered that most of the time the aircraft only
supplies so much power per outlet and that is it. And laptops are
pretty good about adjusting for a lower wattage supply. And what they
generally do is to disable battery charging but the rest of the
laptop works fine otherwise.

That is another thing to check once you know the problem isn't the
battery. Remember I offered to send you a battery to check your
computer with. Anyway your AC power supply could also not put out all
of the amperage that it used too. In that case, the laptop will
refuse to charge the battery, but work fine otherwise.


Oh yeah Yousuf, not only could I send you a battery to test, but I also
have AC power supplies too that I could send for you for testing. You
could email me by changing KOM to COM if you are interested.


Well, I ended up ordering a new battery online, and it came in today. I
put it in, and it's being successfully charged up. So my problem is
solved. Just wondering what caused the previous battery to fail in the
way that it did?

Yousuf Khan


I understand with the laptop battery technology, it isn't safe to
charge the battery, if the terminal voltage drops too low. The charger
won't touch it in that case. Now, why it's showing a little capacity
left, I don't know. Perhaps the undervoltage cutoff threshold value
has shifted ?

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._ion_batteries

"Over-discharging Lithium-ion

If the discharge continues to about 2.70V/cell or lower, the battery’s
protection circuit puts the battery into a sleep mode. This renders the
pack unserviceable and a recharge with most chargers is not possible."

"Copper shunts may have formed inside the cells that can lead to a partial
or total electrical short. If recharged, the cells might become unstable,
causing excessive heat or showing other anomalies. Li-ion packs that have
been under stress are more sensitive to mechanical abuse, such as
vibration, dropping and exposure to heat."

HTH,
Paul
  #22  
Old August 19th 11, 10:19 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

On 19/08/2011 2:45 PM, Paul wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Well, I ended up ordering a new battery online, and it came in today.
I put it in, and it's being successfully charged up. So my problem is
solved. Just wondering what caused the previous battery to fail in the
way that it did?

Yousuf Khan


I understand with the laptop battery technology, it isn't safe to
charge the battery, if the terminal voltage drops too low. The charger
won't touch it in that case. Now, why it's showing a little capacity
left, I don't know. Perhaps the undervoltage cutoff threshold value
has shifted ?

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._ion_batteries

"Over-discharging Lithium-ion

If the discharge continues to about 2.70V/cell or lower, the battery’s
protection circuit puts the battery into a sleep mode. This renders the
pack unserviceable and a recharge with most chargers is not possible."

"Copper shunts may have formed inside the cells that can lead to a partial
or total electrical short. If recharged, the cells might become unstable,
causing excessive heat or showing other anomalies. Li-ion packs that have
been under stress are more sensitive to mechanical abuse, such as
vibration, dropping and exposure to heat."


Sounds good enough to me, as a possible explanation.

Yousuf Khan
  #23  
Old August 20th 11, 12:26 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

From: "Yousuf Khan"

On 19/08/2011 2:45 PM, Paul wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Well, I ended up ordering a new battery online, and it came in today.
I put it in, and it's being successfully charged up. So my problem is
solved. Just wondering what caused the previous battery to fail in the
way that it did?

Yousuf Khan


I understand with the laptop battery technology, it isn't safe to
charge the battery, if the terminal voltage drops too low. The charger
won't touch it in that case. Now, why it's showing a little capacity
left, I don't know. Perhaps the undervoltage cutoff threshold value
has shifted ?

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/a..._ion_batteries

"Over-discharging Lithium-ion

If the discharge continues to about 2.70V/cell or lower, the battery’s
protection circuit puts the battery into a sleep mode. This renders the
pack unserviceable and a recharge with most chargers is not possible."

"Copper shunts may have formed inside the cells that can lead to a partial
or total electrical short. If recharged, the cells might become unstable,
causing excessive heat or showing other anomalies. Li-ion packs that have
been under stress are more sensitive to mechanical abuse, such as
vibration, dropping and exposure to heat."


Sounds good enough to me, as a possible explanation.

Yousuf Khan


Good notebooks "regulate" the charge to the battery and I don't think the above is totally
the explanation.

I am glad thinks worked out for you. The lesson is for all intents and puprposes, what
you experienced is relatively normal as the batteries have a life. How they express their
EoL is not always the same.


--
Dave
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http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


  #24  
Old August 20th 11, 12:31 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Twayne[_2_]
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

In ,
Yousuf Khan typed:
On 18/08/2011 1:59 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
BillW50 wrote:

Yup, I have seen those too. And those of us, who fly a
lot with our laptops... also discovered that most of
the time the aircraft only supplies so much power per
outlet and that is it. And laptops are pretty good
about adjusting for a lower wattage supply. And what
they generally do is to disable battery charging but
the rest of the laptop works fine otherwise. That is another thing to
check once you know the
problem isn't the battery. Remember I offered to send
you a battery to check your computer with. Anyway your
AC power supply could also not put out all of the
amperage that it used too. In that case, the laptop
will refuse to charge the battery, but work fine
otherwise.


Oh yeah Yousuf, not only could I send you a battery to
test, but I also have AC power supplies too that I could
send for you for testing. You could email me by changing
KOM to COM if you are interested.


Well, I ended up ordering a new battery online, and it
came in today. I put it in, and it's being successfully
charged up. So my problem is solved. Just wondering what
caused the previous battery to fail in the way that it
did?
Yousuf Khan


Roll of the dice; not unusual. Look up how batteres work. f'ups set to stop
bombardment of non-relevant groups.

HTH,

Twayne`


  #25  
Old November 18th 11, 01:29 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "BillW50"

In ,
David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Yousuf Khan"

I got an older model laptop running XP, it's a Gateway MX6440, which
is about 6 or 7 years old now. I keep it around to run older
software which may not have been ported to Windows 7. Just recently
I noticed that it's no longer charging its battery. The battery is
just over 1 year old, and it replaced the original battery. I see
the Power icon showing that I'm running on the AC mains, and that
the battery has 0% charge left on it, but the icon doesn't show any
charging going on. I could possibly get another battery, but I'm
afraid that maybe
there's nothing wrong with the battery, and the problem might lie
with the circuitry that charges the battery from the mains. Any way
to test this? The problem just occurred last week. Before that it
was charging fine.

Replace it. They don't last long. That's why a notebook might have
a 3 yr warranty but the battery only has a 1 yr warranty. The same
goes with powertools like Makita and DeWalt, etc.


It depends on how you treat them. I have had Li-Ion batteries last up to
10 years while Barry Watzman got 12 years out of his.


Maybe. But normal usage shows the average battery doesn't last long. As
a function of time any given rechargable battery is less capable of
holding a charge for its rated discharge period as well as its ability to
supply full power decreases.

Then you have to look at how the charge/discharge cycles affect different
technologies; Lead/acid, LiION, NiMH, NiCAD, etc.

I just had to replace the battery in my Makita some months ago. It would
charge up but when I used the Makita it wasn't long before I had to
recharge it again.

Think about your automobiles (or boats) and over their life span you had
to replace the battery.



--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


I'm going to have to buy a new set of "Salt Crystal" batteries for my
electric scooter soon, only bought it in April this year !!!
....as I head out the back door I do a zig-zag ...car on left - £4 for 22
mile round trip, scooter on right - 12 pence electricity !! :-)

.....if raining, car wins every time !

regards, Richard


  #26  
Old November 18th 11, 02:02 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

From: "RJK"


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message ...
From: "BillW50"

In ,
David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Yousuf Khan"

I got an older model laptop running XP, it's a Gateway MX6440, which
is about 6 or 7 years old now. I keep it around to run older
software which may not have been ported to Windows 7. Just recently
I noticed that it's no longer charging its battery. The battery is
just over 1 year old, and it replaced the original battery. I see
the Power icon showing that I'm running on the AC mains, and that
the battery has 0% charge left on it, but the icon doesn't show any
charging going on. I could possibly get another battery, but I'm afraid that maybe
there's nothing wrong with the battery, and the problem might lie
with the circuitry that charges the battery from the mains. Any way
to test this? The problem just occurred last week. Before that it
was charging fine.

Replace it. They don't last long. That's why a notebook might have
a 3 yr warranty but the battery only has a 1 yr warranty. The same
goes with powertools like Makita and DeWalt, etc.

It depends on how you treat them. I have had Li-Ion batteries last up to 10 years
while Barry Watzman got 12 years out of his.


Maybe. But normal usage shows the average battery doesn't last long. As a function of
time any given rechargable battery is less capable of holding a charge for its rated
discharge period as well as its ability to supply full power decreases.

Then you have to look at how the charge/discharge cycles affect different technologies;
Lead/acid, LiION, NiMH, NiCAD, etc.

I just had to replace the battery in my Makita some months ago. It would charge up but
when I used the Makita it wasn't long before I had to recharge it again.

Think about your automobiles (or boats) and over their life span you had to replace the
battery.



--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


I'm going to have to buy a new set of "Salt Crystal" batteries for my electric scooter
soon, only bought it in April this year !!!
...as I head out the back door I do a zig-zag ...car on left - £4 for 22 mile round
trip, scooter on right - 12 pence electricity !! :-)

....if raining, car wins every time !

regards, Richard


Good luck Richard! ;-)


--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


  #27  
Old November 19th 11, 12:29 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

[]
From: "Yousuf Khan"

I got an older model laptop running XP, it's a Gateway MX6440, which
is about 6 or 7 years old now. I keep it around to run older
software which may not have been ported to Windows 7. Just recently
I noticed that it's no longer charging its battery. The battery is
just over 1 year old, and it replaced the original battery. I see

[]
Why did you replace the original battery? Do you still have it?
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  #28  
Old November 19th 11, 12:14 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Laptop battery no longer gets charged

On 18/11/2011 6:29 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[]
From: "Yousuf Khan"

I got an older model laptop running XP, it's a Gateway MX6440, which
is about 6 or 7 years old now. I keep it around to run older
software which may not have been ported to Windows 7. Just recently
I noticed that it's no longer charging its battery. The battery is
just over 1 year old, and it replaced the original battery. I see

[]
Why did you replace the original battery? Do you still have it?


Original battery was holding little more than than an one hour charge
anymore (after 5 years of use), usually less. It's long gone, sent to
the appropriate waste disposal depot.

Yousuf Khan
 




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