Solution to the bad hp laptop batteries

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Question:” noticed that my laptop power stayed at 6% even though I was on power for over two hours. I checked and noticed this…plugged in, not charging. Please help.battery gauge says “6% available (plugged in, not charging)”

I followed these steps:

(1) have hp 510 battery connected and Vista running

(2) remove battery

(3) reconnect hp 6910p battery

now says “6% available (plugged in, charging)”

a few minutes later, it says

100% available (plugged in, charging)

then a minute later it says

6% available (plugged in, charging)”

If the previous tests confirmed that everything is OK so far but your laptop battery is still not charging when the laptop is plugged, then there might be a possibility that the battery is not making good contact with the laptop’s charging circuitry. To eliminate this possibility as a root cause of the hp pavilion dv7 battery not charging, turn off and unplug the laptop, take the battery off the laptop, and using a dry tooth brush, scrub in between the fins of the battery connector on the motherboard & on the battery it self. When done, put the hp 550 battery back into the laptop, plug it, and turn it on. Check if the battery starts charging or not.
What if after all this the hp pavilion dv5 battery is still not charging? Well, we might then start to suspect that the battery itself is bad. This could be verified either by testing the battery in a similar laptop, or by swapping the battery with a new one or one which is known to be in a good working condition. If your battery does not charge when tested in the other laptop, then it is obvious that the battery is bad and has to be replaced. However, if your battery starts charging in the other laptop, then we are left with a couple possibilities: your laptop needs a BIOS update, or your laptop’s charging circuitry is defective.

When laptop owners call tech support to report that their hp pavilion dv4 battery isn’t charging or the life doesn’t seem to be what it should, tech support will often tell them to download the latest BIOS. While it’s marginally possible that the laptop shipped with a BIOS that has been improved in regards to battery management, the BIOS upgrade process, called flashing, is not reversible without special equipment. In other words, if something goes wrong, instead of having a laptop with a battery charging problem you’ll have a collection of perfectly good laptop parts that won’t do anything. Flashing the BIOS is a last resort we only recommend if you find references on the Internet that it fixed an identical charging problem for somebody else with your exact model.

If at last it turns out to be a defective charging circuitry, then you will definitely need to disassemble your laptop in order to gain access to its motherboard. The motherboard should then be checked for any burnt out components in the area surrounding the power receptacle. Burnt out components will need to be replaced, or if not possible, the motherboard will have to be replaced.