Help with Dell Laptop

sPlAtOiD · 04-09-2007, 09:34 PM

Hi all
I just had a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop given to me in pieces in a paper sack.
I knew the guy that gave it to me was having a problem with charging.
Upon inspecting it i saw that the power plug on the motherboard had two solder points broken lose.
So I took it all the way off and cleaned it up and resoldered it. The darn thing actually booted up and I was able to reinstall windows xp pro on it. Now to the problem.
If I leave the laptop sitting for over 5 minutes it wont get any power from the battery unless I take it out and slide it back in. And then it will give me a BIOS date error and the date is off again.
So I thought it was the bios battery but know i don't even know if laptops have bios batteries. OI don't remember seeing one.
Then when i slide it back in the lights blink once and i hit the on switch and it boots. The battery will charge to 100% and last about 35 minutes.
Is it my battery causing this or something more.
Thanks for reading this long winded post.

sPlAtOiD · 04-10-2007, 09:04 AM

Come on I know there has to be some laptop guru out there that can tell me if this is just a bad battery.

04-09-2007, 09:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
sPlAtOiD Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,612	Help with Dell Laptop Hi all I just had a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop given to me in pieces in a paper sack. I knew the guy that gave it to me was having a problem with charging. Upon inspecting it i saw that the power plug on the motherboard had two solder points broken lose. So I took it all the way off and cleaned it up and resoldered it. The darn thing actually booted up and I was able to reinstall windows xp pro on it. Now to the problem. If I leave the laptop sitting for over 5 minutes it wont get any power from the battery unless I take it out and slide it back in. And then it will give me a BIOS date error and the date is off again. So I thought it was the bios battery but know i don't even know if laptops have bios batteries. OI don't remember seeing one. Then when i slide it back in the lights blink once and i hit the on switch and it boots. The battery will charge to 100% and last about 35 minutes. Is it my battery causing this or something more. Thanks for reading this long winded post. __________________ MSI K8NEO4 Ultra PCI Express x16: BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768 Mb AMD DualCore AMD Opteron 185, 2600 MHz (13 x 200) Memory Corsair2046 MB (DDR SDRAM) Dual Channel 320 Western Digital IDE Drive Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Windows XP Por SP2

04-10-2007, 09:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
sPlAtOiD Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,612	Re: Help with Dell Laptop Come on I know there has to be some laptop guru out there that can tell me if this is just a bad battery. __________________ MSI K8NEO4 Ultra PCI Express x16: BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768 Mb AMD DualCore AMD Opteron 185, 2600 MHz (13 x 200) Memory Corsair2046 MB (DDR SDRAM) Dual Channel 320 Western Digital IDE Drive Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Windows XP Por SP2

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