Battery doesn't charge

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Taffy Apple

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Hi,

I've got a laptop here, which has recently been dropped. Great!!!

At which point the thing stopped charging. Now I was told that the battery then ran flat quite quickly.

The laptop works of the power cord, but doesn't charge. I can get the charging light to come on for a moment if I wiggle the cord, but it goes right back off.

Is this yet another naffed up power connecter or does anyone think battery?
 
Ok here,s a little more info.

The lapy is a eisystem 4411. Whatever the hell that is.

It runs fine off the charger.

Additionally. When theres a battery in the thing, the charging light flashes twice then remains off. When there's no battery in there it doesn't flash at all.

Is that enough to conclude the battery is the problem?
 
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Oops,I though I included the link.Anyways Google Batterymon and you'll find it.
 
Ok I've tried that and I'm not sure where to go from here. All its telling me is the battery aint charging. I have another laptop and a good battery (different make) for comparison purposes, but I don't know if thats much help.

At present I have to run the 'bad laptop' off ac power constantly because of the battery problem.

The main screen just shows the charge line running at 0.0%.

The battery info page shows all the battery info, so the laptop is definitely detecting the battery.

The 'bad laptops' battery capacitys read:

Design Capacity : 49151mWh (4915 mAh)
Full Charge Capacity : 15487 mWh (1548 mAh)
Current Capacity : 0 mWh (0mAh)
Voltage : 10.80 Volts

The 'good laptops' battery capacitys read:

Design Capcity : 59200 mWh (3346 mAh)
Full Charge Capacity : 59200 nWh (3946 mAh)
Current Capacity : 55056 mWh (3670 mAh)
Voltage : 15.24 Volts

Please advise.
 
if you have to wiggle your cord to get the battery light to come on then i'd assume its a problem with the dc jack on the laptop. when it was dropped was it dropped while it was plugged in and fall on the cord?

what brand and model of laptop?
 
The cord was plugged in yes.

I've been looking at this and I don't think me wiggling the cord is doing anything. Its just whenever I turn the ac power on, the battery light slowly flashes orange twice. After that no matter what I do to the cord the light stays off.

Do you know what the significance of this is?
 
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