CF-52 Red LED flashing

Hi, I recently bought a CF-52GC. It came with an original battery, and I bought a Chinese AC adaptor (16V, 4.5A)
It powers up and runs fine, on Win XP, I downloaded all drivers and updates and all seems to run fine.

The issue is that the charging led flashes red. The original battery is reported as having 1% life left and so the laptop will not run on that at all.

I bought a third party battery, LIZone CF-VZSU29A, 7800 mAh, 87Wh from Amazon. This still has the flashing LED, but can power the laptop.

In PC Information Viewer, the original battery is recognized as a Panasonic, the new one does not supply a name, but does register with 655350mWh available (and the voltage says 65535 mV ???) and if booted into windows and the ac then removed, it will run on the battery for a long time.

However, the percentage charge remains at 100% until it dies, the laptop does not seem to speak to the battery. Also, the laptop will not boot on only the battery, ac is needed to get it to power on, then ac can be removed and it runs on the battery.

Battery recalibration does nothing, once back into DOS, it just sits there saying charging and there is nothing showing on the 0-100% bar.

So, what do we think, two bad batteries, or a problem with the laptop's charging system?

I have no other batteries or laptops to swap things with, it runs fine on the ac adaptor, and a long time on the new, 3rd party battery, just does not seem to recognize the new one, and the original is beyond all hope?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

First thing I would do is go into the BIOS and set everything to defaults. Then reboot.

Is the LED solid red or flashing red with the original battery?

How do you charge the aftermarket battery?

 

Defaults in BIOS do not help, was already set to that.
LED flashes with both batteries.

I thought I was charging the new battery in the laptop, as it reported 100% after charging for 24 hours on first purchase.
Tonight however, it will not run on that battery, so suspect now that laptop is not charging either battery.

Panasonic replied to my email, they want $130 to diagnose the fault, no idea what the total cost of repair could be. Need to find a local repair shop that is cheaper.

 

Where are you located?

 

I am near Sacramento, CA.

 

One of our board members is in Northern Calif. He is very good at repair work. I'll send him a PM and see if he is interested.

 

Sure, sounds good. Hopefully he is not too far from me.
Thanks for your help.

 

He's in Garberville, up near Eureka in Humboldt County. It would be a pretty drive from Sacramento.
CAP

 

You have 2 things here that could be the problem and I think many will agree with me...a China charger and a China battery. You can pick up very good used battery and charger for $20.00 each on ebay and will last a lot longer than the ones you bought.

 

Mail it to him....

 

Sent a PM about some parts that should help sort things out: working battery, Panasonic power adapter, and external charger.

 

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You have a cheap Chinese charger.... No workee...

 

Its the AC adapter,been there. Get the Panasonic big brick adapter and problem solved. Cost me $130 to find this out on a CF-52 so take my word and $$$ for it.

 

Shawn and I have been discussing this. If you want to mail it to me I'll give it a quick look. I have the stuff to check it with Panasonic components. Then if I need to go inside we will have to discuss it. I am more familiar with the 29's and 30's but I can take a peek. It may just need the battery connector tightened.
$50/hr and you pay shipping. I don't do fuses. Can't see them.
One thing.....will it start and run on power supply only with no flashy lights?

You don't have a friend with a 7.5A or 8 A power supply do ya?

Jeff

 

I got this. Sending Jeff a battery, 8A adapter, and ext charger.
Got too much stuff laying around, needs to go

 

Need a plethora of CF-28 stuff?

Thanks Ken. Got your tracking number.

Now where's the OP?

Jeff...contact me PM if I don't check in here...