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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
Won't take a charge, nada. Works okay with the power adapter, though.
Any suggestions? Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") Thanks, Eddie |
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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
On 5/29/2010 5:53 PM, Ed Maier wrote:
Won't take a charge, nada. Works okay with the power adapter, though. Any suggestions? Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") Thanks, Eddie How old is the battery? If old enough, it could be worn out. Also could be a failure in the netbook's battery charging circuit... Ben Myers |
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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
On 5/29/2010 5:14 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
On 5/29/2010 5:53 PM, Ed Maier wrote: Won't take a charge, nada. Works okay with the power adapter, though. Any suggestions? Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") Thanks, Eddie How old is the battery? If old enough, it could be worn out. Also could be a failure in the netbook's battery charging circuit... Ben Myers I'm convinced it's the charging circuit. One day it was working perfectly; the next day it was kaput. It shuts down immediately when I pull the external power jack, and it is by no means a normal shutdown, sort of like suddenly unplugging your desktop. When I power it back up, it goes through the disk scan routine. (Note: this one is the version with the solid state drive.) Pulled the battery, cleaned the contacts, and reseated it with no luck. I think it's time for ..... .....an iPad? :-) Eddie Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") |
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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:19:15 -0500, Ed Maier
wrote: On 5/29/2010 5:14 PM, Ben Myers wrote: On 5/29/2010 5:53 PM, Ed Maier wrote: Won't take a charge, nada. Works okay with the power adapter, though. Any suggestions? Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") Thanks, Eddie How old is the battery? If old enough, it could be worn out. Also could be a failure in the netbook's battery charging circuit... Ben Myers I'm convinced it's the charging circuit. One day it was working perfectly; the next day it was kaput. It shuts down immediately when I pull the external power jack, and it is by no means a normal shutdown, sort of like suddenly unplugging your desktop. When I power it back up, it goes through the disk scan routine. (Note: this one is the version with the solid state drive.) Pulled the battery, cleaned the contacts, and reseated it with no luck. I think it's time for ..... .....an iPad? :-) Eddie Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") I strongly suspect one cell shorted. Voltage too low to run the computer. I had a Dell do that. A couple weeks after the battery would not run the computer, the system started shutting down, then would not boot untill I removed the battery. I tore the battery apart and replaced the bad cell with a good cell from another dead battery and it's been working fine since. |
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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
Typical behavior for Acer POS. Its beginning to die. Better start
looking for a replacement. On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:19:15 -0500, Ed Maier wrote: On 5/29/2010 5:14 PM, Ben Myers wrote: On 5/29/2010 5:53 PM, Ed Maier wrote: Won't take a charge, nada. Works okay with the power adapter, though. Any suggestions? Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") Thanks, Eddie How old is the battery? If old enough, it could be worn out. Also could be a failure in the netbook's battery charging circuit... Ben Myers I'm convinced it's the charging circuit. One day it was working perfectly; the next day it was kaput. It shuts down immediately when I pull the external power jack, and it is by no means a normal shutdown, sort of like suddenly unplugging your desktop. When I power it back up, it goes through the disk scan routine. (Note: this one is the version with the solid state drive.) Pulled the battery, cleaned the contacts, and reseated it with no luck. I think it's time for ..... .....an iPad? :-) Eddie Unmunge my addy to reply by email. (Change yahoo.com to sbcglobal.net and remove "takethisout.") |
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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:17:37 -0400, wrote:
Typical behavior for Acer POS. Its beginning to die. Better start looking for a replacement. Acer is not the second largest computer manufacturer in the world without good reason. Like anyone else's product, their cheap stuff is cheap - but their good stuff is as good as, or better than,(most of) their competition. |
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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:17:19 -0400, wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:48:34 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:17:37 -0400, wrote: Typical behavior for Acer POS. Its beginning to die. Better start looking for a replacement. Acer is not the second largest computer manufacturer in the world without good reason. Like anyone else's product, their cheap stuff is cheap - but their good stuff is as good as, or better than,(most of) their competition. That don't mean they're good. I had two, top of the liners and both failed after a year. Repair/tech support was the pitts. I think acer has a lot of "one time" purchasers. Well, I sell computers - and I sell a LOT of Acers. I don't see many quality issues. I see more HP/Compaq problems than Acer problems (and I sell a lot less of them) Quite a few customers are buying acers to replace 7 year old acers. (which are still working just fine, thank you) |
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Acer Netbook battery won't charge
On 6/3/2010 2:30 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:17:19 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:48:34 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:17:37 -0400, wrote: Typical behavior for Acer POS. Its beginning to die. Better start looking for a replacement. Acer is not the second largest computer manufacturer in the world without good reason. Like anyone else's product, their cheap stuff is cheap - but their good stuff is as good as, or better than,(most of) their competition. That don't mean they're good. I had two, top of the liners and both failed after a year. Repair/tech support was the pitts. I think acer has a lot of "one time" purchasers. Well, I sell computers - and I sell a LOT of Acers. I don't see many quality issues. I see more HP/Compaq problems than Acer problems (and I sell a lot less of them) Quite a few customers are buying acers to replace 7 year old acers. (which are still working just fine, thank you) Well, for the most part I avoid selling HPaq computers, too. The exceptions are XW4000 series workstations which are powerful and quiet, much quieter than comparable Dell or other higher end systems. You can take all the computers of all brands sold in mass market retail stores and toss them in the dumpster. There is a reason why every name brand manufacturer has both consumer and business systems. Consumer computers are assembled from cheaper parts, with the realization that if they fail, the company can deal with consumers on a one-off basis without serious repercussions. Business-class computers are generally sturdier and made with better quality parts, with the realization that if a big corporation buys a few thousand and they don't work right, they will be sitting on the loading dock to be returned to the manufacturer. This is something of an over-generalization, but it has largely held true for all of this century and most of the '90s. So if the OP bought the netbook from a mass market retailer, the netbook is probably a piece of crap. But, then, I think that all netbooks are throwaway pieces of crap. For a couple more pounds of weight and many more bucks, I would prefer to have a name-brand 12" notebook computer with fewer compromises in LCD quality and a keyboard with reasonably-sized keys. Again, I am tarring and feathering all netbooks. But that's my opinion, FWIW, after many decades in this business... Ben Myers |
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