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    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...
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    I only have a lot of experience with Dells, but when they do this its the charger that's went bad usually. On rare occasion the battery. Since you tested a different battery its either the charger or the charging circuitry on the board, but that's probably not worth fixing.

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    Ah, hadn't thought of the charger, Chris.

    I'll check that forthwith; I have the 12V unit to verify.

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