Hi, Joe an Tomás. >>>>> Do you think the problem might be in the charger? >>>> Yes, certainly. That's why I said it's difficult to know what's >>>> going on without either a known good battery or a known good >>>> charger. You'd better hope it's the battery, as that is easy to >>>> fix... >>> But in any case, whether the problem is in the charger or the >>> battery, I suppose that to solve the issue I will have to change the >>> part. I suppose if the problem is in the charger, the cost will be >>> less compared to a battery. >> Yes, but it is unlikely that a schematic diagram of the laptop >> motherboard will be available. It shouldn't be too hard to locate the >> parts used in charging, but if the main IC is faulty, it may not be >> available in your part of the world [...] > It's worth stressing on this point, since I've the suspicion that there > is a misunderstanding on your part, Daniel: the charge controller isn't > that external brick: that is probably just a more or less dumb power > source. The charge controller is buried somewhere in your laptop (as > Joe puts it, on the laptop's motherboard). Yes, now that he talked about the schematic of the motherboard, I see that he was referring to some internal component of the notebook. Thanks for pointing this out, Tomás :-) And about that: > > Lots of contacts. It is possible that the battery electronics can > > tell if it is correctly seated in the right model laptop, and will > > not supply power if that is not the case. For your safety, of > > course. It could be a possibility... Next week I'll take the notebook to the supplier for the test with a new battery. They offered doing tests with a new battery for an entire day. I think I'm going to suggest them to use a liveCD as System Rescue CD or something like that, since the disk is encrypted. Although I'm not sure if they will feel comfortable using GNU/Linux (and I don't know if there is liveCD's with Windows). Kind regards, Daniel
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