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Charge light won't come on.

My laptop started getting hard to start because it would not come on when the on button was pressed. I bought a new battery and now the charge light does not light and the on button does nothing. The computer does nothing. I checked the AC adaptor and its voltage was 9 volts DC.The problem seemed to start with an intermittant on off switch. Could the on off switch be the problem?

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The switch could have lost contact may need to be replaced

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