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Vaio battery charging problem
For about two weeks I was experiencing problems with charging battery on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z1XMP.
The system tray battery indicator kept constantly changing between charging / not charging. About every 30 seconds. Recently the icon settled at charging, but the battery level stays at 0% and won't go up.
Battery Characteristics from PowerPanel:
Manufacturer: Sony Corp.
Battery Name: PCGA-BP2V
Chemistry: Li-ion
Charge Cycles: 362
Remaining Capacity: 0.00 Wh
Full Charge Capacity: 37.65 Wh
Design Capacity: 48.84
Please advise whether the problem is with the battery, power supply or anything else.
Many thanks
Boris
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Have you tried removing the battery and running on AC power only? This should work, if not I would suspect that your AC adaptor is faulty.
Hi Rich,
I've tried to run it without the battery, but it does't work.
The power led lights up for a millisecond and that's all.
Ive been thinking of a faulty charger.
But the thing is that charger LED does bun and that it sometimes does charge (for a couple of seconds or so) and then doesn't.
Most of the time when a charger is broken, it doesn't do a thing.
Perhaps I should try to see if I can find another charger to test it with.
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There is one weird thing though.
The battery charger doesn't warm up at all.
I hope you're right about this Rich.
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I have reinstalled utils.exe. Unfortunately, no difference.
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I suspect a malfunction in your charger. If still under waranty, call the hotline and they shoot provide you with a new one for free.
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I've just bought a new ac adapter on Ebay (hope to receive it next week), so we'll see.
Unfortunately, the laptop is out of warranty.
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I've just bought a new ac adapter on Ebay (hope to receive it next week), so we'll see.
Fingers crossed for you lieven:smileygood_luck:
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Today I received my new battery charger and guess what.
It works!
Now I can finally turn on the laptop with only the charger connected and the battery charges without interuption.
Thanks for the tips and support u guys!
Now I can truly say I'm a happy Vaio user and close the case at E-support. :smileygrin:
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I bought a new charger which appears to have solved the problems.
Thanks for all the useful replies to this post.
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Pleased to hear of the successful outcome for both of you:smileyhappy:
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Hello Sony
How are You?
What's wrong is that my charger keeps making a beep sound and whilst its doing that i can't charge my PC and after it takes longer for my PC to charge.
Please Help Me
Thanks
Regards
Ismail Kalam