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From: Bob Villa on 9 Jun 2010 05:58 On Jun 9, 2:57 am, paul8 <pauld...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 Jun., 19:12, "William R. Walsh" <wm_wa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > Pop the battery and try it again without the battery in place. If that > > doesn't help, there's probably something wrong with the hardware. > > > If the battery is especially depleted, it may take the charger > > anywhere from a few hours to overnight before it can start the fast > > charge. Or it may not be able to charge the battery at all any longer. > > > You're probably speaking of the pre-boot system assessment that takes > > place before the diagnostics partition is started. This can be > > accessed by pressing F12 at startup to get the boot menu. On my > > LatD800, the pre-boot assessment test runs two color bar test pattern > > displays. > > > William > > Still no sign of life after one night with the charger on, -and the > charger is not warm as it use to be when charging. > Trying boot without battery makes no difference. > > So I am prepared to arrange this good old laptops burial. > The 40GB hard disk is OK. It will be used as external USB disk for > recording TV. > And the single 512MB ram will find a place in another laptop Rest in Pieces!
From: Christopher Muto on 9 Jun 2010 09:21 paul8 wrote: > On 8 Jun., 19:12, "William R. Walsh" <wm_wa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Pop the battery and try it again without the battery in place. If that >> doesn't help, there's probably something wrong with the hardware. >> >> If the battery is especially depleted, it may take the charger >> anywhere from a few hours to overnight before it can start the fast >> charge. Or it may not be able to charge the battery at all any longer. >> >> You're probably speaking of the pre-boot system assessment that takes >> place before the diagnostics partition is started. This can be >> accessed by pressing F12 at startup to get the boot menu. On my >> LatD800, the pre-boot assessment test runs two color bar test pattern >> displays. >> >> William > > Still no sign of life after one night with the charger on, -and the > charger is not warm as it use to be when charging. > Trying boot without battery makes no difference. > > So I am prepared to arrange this good old laptops burial. > The 40GB hard disk is OK. It will be used as external USB disk for > recording TV. > And the single 512MB ram will find a place in another laptop see my other post from earlier. also, test the tip of the ac adapter as it may not be producing power from the tip due to a small nik or cut in the cord. if the adapter is the problem then a replacement ac adapter can be had for under $15 on ebay. good luck.
From: Ben Myers on 9 Jun 2010 10:22 On 6/9/2010 3:57 AM, paul8 wrote: > On 8 Jun., 19:12, "William R. Walsh"<wm_wa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Pop the battery and try it again without the battery in place. If that >> doesn't help, there's probably something wrong with the hardware. >> >> If the battery is especially depleted, it may take the charger >> anywhere from a few hours to overnight before it can start the fast >> charge. Or it may not be able to charge the battery at all any longer. >> >> You're probably speaking of the pre-boot system assessment that takes >> place before the diagnostics partition is started. This can be >> accessed by pressing F12 at startup to get the boot menu. On my >> LatD800, the pre-boot assessment test runs two color bar test pattern >> displays. >> >> William > > Still no sign of life after one night with the charger on, -and the > charger is not warm as it use to be when charging. > Trying boot without battery makes no difference. > > So I am prepared to arrange this good old laptops burial. > The 40GB hard disk is OK. It will be used as external USB disk for > recording TV. > And the single 512MB ram will find a place in another laptop If you are within driving distance of ZIP 01451 (central Massachusetts), I have one or two working D505 systems, along with a lot of other laptop gear (mostly Dell and IBM/Lenovo). I can do a quick and inexpensive replacement of the dead chassis, swapping the hard drive, memory, optical drive and any wifi card to one that works. Or, if its the power supply, I have a few of those, too. Not sure if I can recommend mailing parts for you to do it yourself, because it is unclear whether the problem is power supply or motherboard. .... Ben Myers
From: paul8 on 12 Jun 2010 07:36 On 9 Jun., 15:21, Christopher Muto <m...(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote: > paul8 wrote: > > On 8 Jun., 19:12, "William R. Walsh" <wm_wa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi! > > >> Pop the battery and try it again without the battery in place. If that > >> doesn't help, there's probably something wrong with the hardware. > > >> If the battery is especially depleted, it may take the charger > >> anywhere from a few hours to overnight before it can start the fast > >> charge. Or it may not be able to charge the battery at all any longer. > > >> You're probably speaking of the pre-boot system assessment that takes > >> place before the diagnostics partition is started. This can be > >> accessed by pressing F12 at startup to get the boot menu. On my > >> LatD800, the pre-boot assessment test runs two color bar test pattern > >> displays. > > >> William > > > Still no sign of life after one night with the charger on, -and the > > charger is not warm as it use to be when charging. > > Trying boot without battery makes no difference. > > > So I am prepared to arrange this good old laptops burial. > > The 40GB hard disk is OK. It will be used as external USB disk for > > recording TV. > > And the single 512MB ram will find a place in another laptop > > see my other post from earlier. also, test the tip of the ac adapter as > it may not be producing power from the tip due to a small nik or cut in > the cord. if the adapter is the problem then a replacement ac adapter > can be had for under $15 on ebay. good luck.- Skjul tekst i anførselstegn - > > - Vis tekst i anførselstegn - It pays being patient. I found an opportunity to try charging the battery in another Latitude. After a couple of days, the battery get fully charged. Now I can see that my D505 works normally on battery power. The problem is that it does not takes charge from the power adapter. I have tried both a PA10 and a PA12 adapter. Are there any other possibility ? I would be unhappy to have to quit my D505 just because of a charging problem.....
From: JayB on 12 Jun 2010 08:55
sounds like the connector is broken on the motherboard where the a/c adapter plugs in. paul8 wrote: > It pays being patient. I found an opportunity to try charging the > battery in another Latitude. After a couple of days, the battery get > fully charged. > Now I can see that my D505 works normally on battery power. The > problem is that it does not takes charge from the power adapter. > I have tried both a PA10 and a PA12 adapter. > Are there any other possibility ? > I would be unhappy to have to quit my D505 just because of a charging > problem..... |