The battery in my laptop starts charging normally. Then after a few seconds the LED turns off and the battery stops charging.
I have a problem with a Toshiba laptop model M55-S325. When I plug the power cord while the laptop is turned on it starts to charge and the AC power LED turns on as well as the charging LED. Then after a few seconds the charging LED turns off and the battery stops charging but the AC power LED stills on. If I unplug the power cord and plug it again it happens again.
I also noticed that this happens only while I’m in Windows. If I charge my laptop turned off it charges normal. Also during the boot and loading of Windows the charging is normal. I checked the power jack and I don’t thing the problem is there. I move the power cord while connected to check for failures in both the jack and the cable and in both cases the laptop turn off and on but nothing happened, everything is the same. What do you think the problem might be? Please help.
Can the laptop run just on the battery power, when the AC adapter is unplugged?
The problem with your laptops is very similar to a battery charging problem with some Toshiba Satellite A105 laptops. Almost the same symptoms. In case of Satellite A105 the problem could be resolved by upgrading the BIOS version. I think it might work for your laptop too. Go to Toshiba tech support website and download the latest BIOS for your model. It looks like at this moment the latest version is v2.10
You mentioned that the charging problem occurs only in Windows. I think it might be somehow related to Toshiba Power Saver software. Try to reinstall the power saver.
If upgrading the BIOS version and reinstalling the power saver software will not help, you might have a hardware problem. In Satellite M55 the battery connects directly to the system board. So, it might be either the battery failure or the system board failure. The best way to test it is finding a spare battery and test the laptop with the new battery installed.
January 18th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
OK.. solution 121 is the key for most people I think. And I had already read that somewhere else and already tried it. Here’s my ‘twist’.
My Toshiba battery was getting really really low. Each day just a little bit lower. It would not charge enough to increase up a notch. Same problem as the main post – put power plug in, 10 seconds of amber battery light… then off.
I had already deleted Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery and restarted and re-installed it. But problem stayed.
So, this is what I did. I set a low power usage (screen really dark). And then deleted Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery…. but then I made a coffee in order to then come back and do the re-install thing… only to realise that, having left my laptop alone for a while without Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery, it seemed to be re-charhing just fine.
So, I left it to recharge the battery for a while and when the light went off, I re-installed Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery. It had got to 41%. And that was that… but an improvement..
Any ideas?
November 20th, 2010 at 4:25 am
i have a toshiba laptop and the battery of my laptop is not recharging. the laptop works fine with the power from the adapters but if i switch off the power supply the computer dies. the battery is not recharging at all.
October 20th, 2010 at 9:15 am
yo my Toshiba A300 will not charge i don’t no why can some one help me.
September 29th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Ey! u guyz should read comment # 121. I think Nick has the answer to this issue. Thanks Nick, U did save me a lot of headache.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Nevermind, I found a solution, it was as simple as going into device manager, going to Batteries and uninstalling the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery, then clicking the Action tab at the top and clicking Scan for hardware changes.
Hope this helps someone else too!
I got this solution, and there are a few others, from the following page, http://hellen12.blog.co.uk/2009/07/29/hp-pavilion-dv6000-battery-problem-not-charging-6609027/