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Ya right. Happy April fools Day!

Neigh!

Hm.  This might be fairly trivial, but have you checked every link in the wire?  If so, I read somewhere that you might try shutting down your computer, removing the battery, (maybe dust it off a bit,) put it back in, and turn on your PC.  Also, I might suggest that you try a different outlet.  Also, it might be a good idea to turn off your PC and leave it like that for a while, and then check to see if it charged at all later.

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Laternenpfahl wrote:

If you shut it down first then no

what?

Have you tried turning it off and on again????
(Actually this happened to me. We got a new charger and it worked perfectly fine after that)

"windows vista"

There's your problem. 

Well, the advice above seems good. As for a new charger, try eBay, Amazon, or the manufacturer. If it still doesn't work, you may need to take it in to a computer repair place to have the mobo/power jack replaced. This happened to one of our family's laptops too.

WindowsExplorer wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

"windows vista"

There's your problem. 

Well, the advice above seems good. As for a new charger, try eBay, Amazon, or the manufacturer. If it still doesn't work, you may need to take it in to a computer repair place to have the mobo/power jack replaced. This happened to one of our family's laptops too.

How much would it cost. I'm probably getting a new laptop for my birthday which is soon, so I can just wait for that, but I'd still like to know, because I don't want to restart my pc every time I want to move to another room.

EDIT: Know any good quality windows 7 for less than 400? sorry if none exist. I'll go with any type except hp, which has braught me NOTHING but trouble 

Well, you could replace it yourself for pretty cheap. I assume it would have a slightly higher cost for you if you needed to buy a soldering iron, and you could ruin the computer, but it would be cheaper. As for a new power cord, a quick google search came up with a price of about 20 dollars.

Disclaimer: I have only linked to sites that were found by a quick google search. In  no way do I gaurante the reliability of the products or services above. I am not responsible for any damage caused to your laptop, or your wallet. 

Edit: if you are looking for a new laptop, the best thing to do would be to tell us what you want. From looking up the old one, it is a 15 inch screen, mid range power computer with integrated GPU? You could probably find one on the cheap these days.

Last edited by 16Skittles (2012-04-01 19:47:01)

i bought a Compaq presario CQ56
it was about $300 and ran perfectly ive had it for a year and i still have it
as for batery it does amazing and it has pretty good performance to

Last edited by slayerrobe7 (2012-04-01 19:52:59)

jji7skyline wrote:

Reinstall your OS or do the equivalent of refreshing the memory on a PC. Could be something in the Kernel or something. That's usually the problem with macbooks and charging problems.

[jamie from mythbusters] Now there's your problem [/jamie]

Gasp you admitted a Mac had an issue... It was nice knowing you. 

Make sure you get the wattage right... I accidentally broke my charger once and got a new one and it done the same thing... We took it to the computer shop and they couldn't figure out the problem... I spent a while looking at the back of the new charger and the old charger and realised that the new one was something like 90W and the old one was 65W.

bump im looking for the cheapest way to do this.