Hi!
I have a Dell Inspiron 1440.
All of the sudden I noticed in the control panel that battery level is low while the AC adapter is connected and ON.
I did the following things to trouble shoot:
* LED on the power pack is lit up. unplugged, cleaned the connectors, and plugged the A/C adapter. Still A/C adapter not shown in the control panel (as charging)
* checked the AC adapter with a multimeter and found around 19~20 V DC output is coming as usual.
* (when the laptop is OFF) whenever the A/C adapter is connected the LED on the laptop turns ON (White) and blinks, and LED goes OFF.
* removed the battery and tried to start the laptop with A/C adapter only with no success. Laptop does NOT turns on.
* put the battery back. with A/C adapter connected started the laptop. once the laptop boots the LED turns to ORANGE (on the normal days it is WHITE).
* went into BIOS and checked battery: it showed battery level critically low (3%), and no A/C adapter connected.
Now, very low battery, I m no more in a position to play with the BIOS. And, I doubt of mother board issue.
Any help/clues to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance.
VJ