Posted by brownlad007
hi all,
bought my laptop a couple months ago from dell. Just this problem has started this morning, the laptop will not turn on without the power cable. If i take the power cable out while it is on, the laptop will just go off, no shut down or anything just straight off.
any ideas :s ? i think ive got a 90 day warranty
Posted by absinthebri
Is the battery a bit loose (or the contact pins)?
Posted by amnesia
when you plug the cable in with the battery in, do you have an LED light (that indicated the battery's status) on? Is it the charging color or charged color?
If it's not on, it means there's probably a battery fault or connector fault as abs pointed out. If it IS on, then it means the battery is drained.
It's recommended that you discharge the battery completely once a month.
Posted by anay
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how do we do that?
battery may be faulty? leave it to charge a while.
Posted by brownlad007
amnesia, absinthebri... thank you both, it was loose it think. i just took it out, pluged it back and it works fine. thanks to you both !
Posted by absinthebri
If only everything was as easily sorted.
Glad it's fixed.
Posted by amnesia
great to see it's been solved
@anay, to discharge it's basically just emptying it.
Just use your laptop with max brightness and play a dvd till it's absolutely drained.
Posted by kk.226
I have the same problem on my laptop, only now the battery life has gone down from 2hrs to 6 mins on a full charge
Think i'll just buy a new lappy
Posted by brownlad007
anyone know how to turn the brightness down?
when i plug the power cable in, the brightness of the screen automatically goes brighter.
cheers
Posted by absinthebri
It'll be in the manual. With my lapy brighter is fn(function) f10 and dimmer is fn f11
Posted by amnesia
with my toshiba it's fn and F6 for brightness down.
Look at your keyboard and you should an icon of an arrow down and a sun.
Posted by scottt
On a dell its Fn and up and down arrows.
well is on mine anyway
Posted by brownlad007
cheers lol, been pressing random keys for weeks
Posted by anay
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thanks
Posted by brownlad007
anyone know how to find out my laptops mac address?
Posted by Cycovision
Click start, run, type in cmd and press enter. In the black window, type in ipconfig /all. The numbers and letters next to 'physical address' is the same as the mac address.
Bear in mind that it's possible to have more than one mac address, for example if you have a wireless adaptor as well as a standard network port.