I have a ~10(?) year old laptop that has recently stopped charging it's battery. (few days ago it stopped charging past ~30%, ran on battery for 5 minutes, laptop died, now shows 0% charge). Does anyone know what the first step would be to diagnose this issue? Laptop itself powers up just fine on wall power, and I have a spare battery I can try to verify it isn't a blown fuse or something in this pack. If I can find a 7 pin 2mm pitch header I plan to hook up my li-ion charger/balancer to the pack to recharge, however I fear the charging circuit on the motherboard may have gone out. Assuming this is the case, does anyone have the knowledge or experience to diagnose/repair this? I've done SMD rework before, but circuit design/reverse engineering/testing is beyond me. Any advice will be appreciated.
regards, -Eitan Tsur- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
