I have a Inspiron 8500, purchased two new batteries one dell and one off
brand.

Can get batteries to charge up..laptop is used was given to me 3 mounts ago,
since I been using it with house 115 volt only.

Any idea from anyone please.

Steve

In article <tQvxh.1095$6P4.480@trnddc06>, Steve <svidra@verizon.net> wrote:
>I have a Inspiron 8500, purchased two new batteries one dell and one off
>brand.
>
>Can get batteries to charge up..laptop is used was given to me 3 mounts ago,
>since I been using it with house 115 volt only.
>
>Any idea from anyone please.
>
>Steve
>




I managed a few hundred Toshiba and Dell laptops, so maybe I'm
recalling Toshiba, but a couple machines developed a situation where
batteries wouldn't charge and there was an elaborate proceedure for
resets, discharges and recharges to get things back in sync. There
werer notes in the vendors web site that covered it. I had
vendor support then, and they pointed me to it,


Look in the Dell knowledgebase or even call them to see if this
applies to your machine,

You can buy a drop-in charger on ebay for a few bucks as a work
around.





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