(April 15, 2022 at 5:11 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 13, 2022 at 12:03 pm)Brian37 Wrote: About 15 minutes ago I bumped my plugged in laptop on my bed, and it slid off and hit the floor. but it landed on it's side where the cord is, and so hard it bent the metal casing of the laptop. I was able to bend it back in place over the hole where you stick the power cord in. But I wonder if I bent the peg inside the laptop housing and broke a connection making charging the battery impossible. I guess only time will tell.
Right now my laptop is plugged in, but when I click on the battery icon it says it only tracks battery usage when it is on battery power, not when it is plugged in. But I am plugged in and when I hit battery settings it is still telling me how much time I have remaining on my battery charge.
You may have broken the solder on the internal jack, in which case it's cheaper to replace the computer than have it repaired, probably.
You may have gotten lucky and it only broke the internal insulation on the power cord itself. Do you have another, compatible charger to test it?
There is no solder in this one. The guy said it was a a wire under the casing that plugged into the motherboard.The guy DID fix it and brought it back to me today. The black battery icon was moving, indicating receiving a charge. I don't think it is my laptop at all. My house is a trailer and very shitty construction, I think I have an electric flow imbalance causing the laptop to misread the input saying that the cord is incompatible. Simply unplugging it should not cause it to not charge when you plug it back in.
I am getting a wattage error which is trying to tell me that the cord is bad. But he had swapped out the bad cord with one that worked at his shop and he gave me that one.
