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Anonymous Posted on May 22, 2012

Inspiron 1525: "plugged in, not charging"

Well, the age old Inspiron 1525 problem... "plugged in, not charging". Has been troubling for an year! Now used to it. Anything that can fix this?

  • Anonymous May 23, 2012

    The laptop runs on adapter without battery. So, no problem in the adapter.
    Also, the battery gets charged by other adapters. So, no problem in the battery.
    So, where is the problem?

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Not charging means the battery is not being charged. Batteries only have a useful life of so long, then they die and will not take a charge so you have to replace them.

If the laptop works fine when the power cord is plugged in, then just replace the battery. if the laptop does not work on the power cord, then you need to either replace the power cord or look to see if the DC Jack where the power cord plugs into the laptop is broken or wiggles. When the DC Jack it bad the battery will not charge and eventually the laptop will not turn on if the power cord can't make the connection correctly.

Take an ink pen and push the tip inside the jack and see if the little pin wiggles, if so the jack is bad. You'll have to take the laptop apart to fix it. Most times it is soldered onto the motherboard, so you will have to desolder the old and solder a new one.

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SOURCE: plugged in not charging on Dell Inspiron 1525

Well if a unit is not charging then there are only a few things it may be. First we must check that the Wall Power Supply is working and supplying the correct Voltage, next we must check, by, unfortunately, a replacement, to see if the battery is any good, and also that the ACPI (Power) settings & Drivers are installed and working. It is often simply a "Bad" battery. OR "Bad" Power Supply. Sometimes it is the actual Charging Circuit in the laptop, and that is NOT good.

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  • Posted on Apr 11, 2010

SOURCE: Inspiron 1525..black screen. The screen is black

or screen probably is burned...
or inside crystals are broken..
u have to buy a new laptop

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SOURCE: problem in charging of dell

If the charging LED is on but the battery is not charging then the battery may be worn out.
Ifthe laptop battery is more than 3 - 4 years old then the battery could be wornout. Rechargeable batteries have a finite number of charge and discharge cyclesand will lose their charge capacity over time, i.e. won't charge to 100% andgradually the charge reduces until the battery won't charge up atall. ORThe battery shows a 100% charge but when the adapter is disconnected thebattery drops off to zero capacity in a very short time. Ifthe battery drops to an unacceptable charge level then the battery needs to bereplaced.

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