![]() ![]() ![]() Measured the 3 sets of cells afterwards and sure enough they all read the same 3.7v, so the pack itself was fine.what gives ? Turns out the laptop refuses to run on battery if the battery itself tells it it's past its due, even though the cells are fine. I applied 11v to the ends of the pack, limited to 1a from my power supply and charged them up for several hours. I popped the battery open and found the 6 cells. Unfortunately the battery is totally dead, not that you'd expect otherwise for a laptop this old, so I wanted to mess around with it and see if I can replace some of its cells to at least allow me to move it from one room to the other without having to shut it down every time I have to pull the adapter. 8Gb of RAM and a modest i5 CPU on it - worth saving. I recently managed to score a Samsung NP300E5C laptop which was sold as defective, so I took the gamble and turns out all that was wrong with it was a broken power jack, so it was a snap to get it going again. ![]()
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