Do I need a new netbook battery?

[guccibro]

I'm currently trying to decide if I should spend the $50+ for a new battery.

I have had an acer netbook for a little over a year. I used to fully charge it up, and then unplug it and let the battery run down all the way. Well for the last couple months, I have always left it plugged in since it would only be able to charge up fully to 14%. I also bought a cooling fan unit that would hook up beneath it since it would get too hot.

The last couple weeks I had to continually adjust the wire charger into the netbook before it would finally start charging.

About a week ago, I of course had the charger plugged into the netbook, but it was no longer recognizing it, and wouldnt charge at all, and now wont turn on at all.

I'm no computer expert, so do you think replacing the battery with a new one would fix the problem, or does it sound like an internal problem with this netbook?

It's not like I always carry this on go, but always stays in on my desk so have never dropped it or anything to that effect.

This same thing happened to my last laptop, in almost the same exact fashion as this netbook in that I mean once the battery got too low, I would have to continually adjust the charger port into the computer until it would finally start charging until it would no longer charge and I couldnt turn it on anymore.

Thanks for any replies

 

[CrazyHV8000]

Check volt on your charger cable with your volt meter. (like ohm meter) If no volt, it is charger. As my experience i'm not really fan of acer because it was made from gateway along with emachine. It is not stable and strong. Recommend if you get new netbook that is not made from gateway.

 

[strollin]

Sounds like you have multiple problems you need to fix.

The last couple weeks I had to continually adjust the wire charger into the netbook before it would finally start charging.

This sounds like you may have a loose DC jack on your netbook which is causing an intermittent connection. Either that, or you may have a broken lead within the charger cord. If you are not able to properly charge your unit, there is no way of knowing if the battery needs to be replaced.

I also bought a cooling fan unit that would hook up beneath it since it would get too hot.

If your netbook is getting hot, it may need to be taken apart and thoroughly cleaned. You might also consider disassembling the CPU heatsink, cleaning off the original thermal paste and reapplying a thin layer of fresh thermal paste.

We have several Acer Aspire netbooks in our family (5 total). None of them have issues you describe and the oldest is 3 years old. We also have 2 Asus eeePC netbooks in the family. I actually prefer the keyboard on the Acer's as the Asus keyboards seem flimsy to me.

 

[CrazyHV8000]

This sounds like you may have a loose DC jack on your netbook which is causing an intermittent connection. Either that, or you may have a broken lead within the charger cord. If you are not able to properly charge your unit, there is no way of knowing if the battery needs to be replaced.

Or it can be weak wire. Charger and battery is most trick to find problem.