Netbook battery/charging problem
I have a several year-old HP 5101 netbook that has been demoted to auto-flashing/tuning duty, but is still a fully-functioning unit, until now.
It has the N280/1.66G proc, 2G RAM, 160G HDD, blah, blah, blah.
When I bought it, I'd also gotten the accessory 9-cell battery for longer off-charge life.
During the winter, when the car was parked, I got into the habit of leaving it plugged-in on the end-table next to my easy-chair.
This past spring, I had to do a flash on the car, then back in the house next to my chair.
Back story: the unit was an XP machine when I got it - I did a legit upgrade to Win7, and - surprise, surprise - the hardware was good enough to take Win10, which was installed via the auto-update method.
I was okay with that - it taxed the unit a little, slowed it down a little, but it worked well enough, and it was fine for the car-stuff.
About a month ago, I noticed the battery was not charging...I thought the battery took a shit, so I subbed-in the OE 6-cell (which had never been used) to no avail.
The unit works fine when plugged in, just doesn't charge.
I disabled/uninstalled/reinstalled drivers, etc, again, to no avail; the machine says all is good.
My assumption, therefore, is that the PC-end of the charging hardware is on the blink and the batts are okay.
I even retro-installed Win7 (wouldn't validate, I assume because the code was still in play for the defunct Win10 install), then the original copy of XP, to ensure it wasn't wasn't a driver-issue - neither worked.
I still want to make this usable for auto-work, as my Lenovo lappy is large-ish for in-car work.
I'm not inclined to pay for pro-service on this thing, but I also just saw a 5101 (no HDD, charger, etc) on ebay for $40.
Give me some ideas, fellers...
