Battery not charging

[Velky]

About a week ago, my laptop went completely on the fritz. It was fine one day, and the next when I went to turn it on, it brought me to a screen prompting me to either start normally. This led me to a blue screen, and cycled back to the prompt screen. The second option was to run a disk repair, which after completing it said it couldn't repair the problem.

I eventually did a system restore to factory settings. Everything is fine, except when I plug in my charger, it doesn't charge my battery. I have it on power saving mode, but even after being plugged in for 2-5 hours, I still can't turn it on without the power cord.

[Vandango]

how long have you had the laptop?

[Velky]

About 2 years

[Djinni]

Quite likely your battery has reached "maximum entropy". (IE It physically cannot charge anymore)

Only two fixes here.... If you managed to get a second laptop of the same model try the battery from that one in this one to confirm. otherwise:
Option 1) Only use it as a desk bound machine, (IE Plugged in all the time)
Option 2) Fork out for a new battery. (not the cheap £/$/€10 one the proper one from the manufacturer)

[Blastit]

let the battery die and recharge it that usually how things work. Batteries have "memory" and when you let it die it "resets" the "memory"

[Velky]

It is dead. I can have the laptop plugged in for 2 hours, unplug it and try to turn it on. Nothing.

Prior to the problem, it still had 3-4 hours battery life on Balanced mode, so having it instantly die is a little hard to believe.

[Djinni]

It is dead. I can have the laptop plugged in for 2 hours, unplug it and try to turn it on. Nothing.

Prior to the problem, it still had 3-4 hours battery life on Balanced mode, so having it instantly die is a little hard to believe.

It's usually a fairly gradual thing, doesn't just happen overnight... and usually as a result of over-charging.