Crazy Laptop Battery

Potential-Monke

Ok, so maybe it's not crazy, but i've never seen or heard of this before.

It's my mates Dell Inspiron 1501. Battery is completely dead, and laptop won't turn on. I suspect it's the PSU connector on the back of the laptop (very similar problems with my XPS). However, when i plug the PSU into the wall, all is grand, green light comes on on the adapter. But when i then connect it to the laptop the light goes off and i have to unplug to get power going through to it again.

A PSU from the exact same laptop was tried and the same thing happens. The battery from that laptop was tried and same results. I'm fairly positive that it's the connector (going to open it up when i'm home from work and hope that it's seperate to the motherboard).

Anyone experience this?

wingnut

Short on the motherboard / ac jack. The AC Adapter is detecting this and shutting itself of to protect itself.

Potential-Monke

Thats a smart PSU!

I was right so, coolio, cheers!

seanmacc

The Inspiron 1501 was a computer just thrown together. I retired mine just a couple of months back. The battery in mine went kaput (barely holding a charge) after a year. I couldn't understand why, as I nearly always ran off the mains. There was that many bios updates on it to fix the boot up sequence and various pre loaded device drivers went wrong when you installed new devices.

In fairness to it, it was cheap.

Potential-Monke

Well after taking it apart i can tell it was cheaply made... But, i did not buy it, so i care not.