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    M14x R2 not charging.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by idiotpilot, Feb 16, 2013.

  1. idiotpilot

    idiotpilot Notebook Evangelist

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    Randomly this morning my laptop stopped charging entirely. It's not at all recognizing the charger being in the computer. I'm not even getting a "plugged in, not charging" icon. It's just running on battery. The weird thing is that my battery indicator will turn blue when I plug it in, but not flash to white like it's supposed to when charging. I checked the bios and the 150w ac adapter isn't at all recognized. Tried plugging in another charger and that didn't work either.... Help!
     
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    Fixed it! for anyone wondering, I took the battery out and cleaned the contacts with alcohol, the reinstalled the acpi battery control method in the device manager and then restarted.
     
    idiotpilot, Feb 16, 2013
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    Sooo I just got mine a couple days ago, and I'm starting to have the same issue.
    I've never had to uninstall anything from my systems, so would you pleeeease enlighten me?
    :frown:
     
    aks95lol, Mar 16, 2013
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    First unplug your laptop. Open your task manager and under batteries, uninstall "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery" by highlighting and click "Action" at the top. Then press action again and "Scan for Hardware changes", it should reinstall it. Now plug it back in and it should be good to go.
     
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    Try this article and if that does not work then send me a PM to help you better.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Mar 20, 2013
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    Also, check in your BIOS to see which Adapter is installed. It NEEDS to say 150w. If it says "Unknown" it simply won't charge.
     
    copper7op, Apr 3, 2013
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