On 21/07/2020 04:35, David Wright wrote:
However, this laptop, the lenovo, no longer has a functioning power
regulation. The battery shows full at all times, but if the AC is
interrupted, it's dead. It doesn't help that the connector (a USB-A
look-alike) is loose fitting, so the laptop now has t
On Mon 20 Jul 2020 at 17:58:46 (+0100), Graham Seaman wrote:
>
> So the new battery came, precharged to 75%. Left the power in for 30
> minutes, stayed at 75%. Took the power out, dropped to 72% pretty
> quickly. Put the power back in and it stays at 72%. So the motherboard
> is reading the batter
On 18/07/2020 21:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
often for the price of a new battery you are already
a large part of the way towards just getting a newer
system (a raspberry pi might work for some people and
be much better instead).
New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (acc
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 05:00:57 PM Graham Seaman wrote:
> On 18/07/2020 21:42, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:21:31 PM Graham Seaman wrote:
> >> Where did you find them? All I can find on ebay or elsewhere is AC
> >> adapters (I'm searching on 'dell vostro 1520 psu'
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:47:40 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
> > to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
>
> Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate prices are more in
> the £40-50 range in the UK.
I
On Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:11:22 -04 Graham Seaman wrote:
> On 18/07/2020 21:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30
> >> (according to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
> >
> > Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate pr
Graham Seaman wrote:
> > Maybe the CMOS battery empty?
>
> Why would the CMOS battery affect the main battery? (not being sarcastic - I
> really don't know enough about this to know whether it would or not)
That old machine has stored most settings in the BIOS. It's not unlikely,
that a new CMOS
On 18/07/2020 21:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate prices are more in
the £40-50 range in the UK.
Most of the ones on Amazon ar
On 18/07/2020 21:42, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:21:31 PM Graham Seaman wrote:
Where did you find them? All I can find on ebay or elsewhere is AC
adapters (I'm searching on 'dell vostro 1520 psu' or 'dell vostro 1520
power supply', but all the results returned are f
> New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
> to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520").
Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate prices are more in
the £40-50 range in the UK.
Stefan
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 04:21:31 PM Graham Seaman wrote:
> Where did you find them? All I can find on ebay or elsewhere is AC
> adapters (I'm searching on 'dell vostro 1520 psu' or 'dell vostro 1520
> power supply', but all the results returned are for adapters, not power
> supplies - even when
> often for the price of a new battery you are already
> a large part of the way towards just getting a newer
> system (a raspberry pi might work for some people and
> be much better instead).
New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according
to a quick search for "battery d
On 18/07/2020 13:47, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
Graham Seaman wrote:
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
i
On 18/07/2020 13:39, Dan Ritter wrote:
Graham Seaman wrote:
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
is com
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I guess it's most likely this is a hardware failure, but since I'm
> unlikely to find a viable replacement for the battery I'm hoping there
> might be some firmware or other software change that could account for it.
I have replaced batteries after 5y or so. Recently one on
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has
> been working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is
> genuinely empty; if I power down and then try to boot with no power
> cable attached the laptop is completely dead.
>
> I guess it's m
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
> working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
> if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
> is completely dead.
Maybe the CMOS batter
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has been
> working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is genuinely empty;
> if I power down and then try to boot with no power cable attached the laptop
> is completely dead.
>
> I guess it's mos
I'm running Debian on an old Dell Vostro 1520 - old and slow, but has
been working fine. Recently the PSU has stopped charging. It is
genuinely empty; if I power down and then try to boot with no power
cable attached the laptop is completely dead.
I guess it's most likely this is a hardware fa
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