Inspiron 1526 battery not charging while plugged in....

Hi

   I have a Inspiron 1525 and am having the same problem, battery not charging while plugged in, the battery light flashes orange 4 times and blue once, you got a new battery and that didn't help, this battery and computer is only 4 months old, best buy said they would send it out for repair but it would take 4 to 6 weeks, when I go into my dell battery meter it states my battery is 65% charged but not charging and that the battery health state is good. what is the problem if you findout please let me know.

                                                                                                           Thanks with any help you can give potpie

HI,

I also have an inspiron 1525 and I am having almost the same problem, only that the battery life of my computer is only 20 or 30 minutes. Plus the internet runs slow on my laptop.This laptop is not even 6 months old yet, so age is not a problem. All our computers have been from dell, but this is the only one where there is a problem with the internet. Please Help!

same thing with mine! and i got it from best buy, we just sent ours back in november and took 5 weeks for the memory board?  weve had it back a few months and now this, ours isnt a year old either.

Mine just started doing it also, we had to splice our cord, it worked fine then started having that problem, so i used someon elses and its not the cord, not sure what the problem, we thought i might be the battery, but then i read yours, did you solve the problem?

I have Inspirion 1300. Had backup battery from start. First battery was ok during 1 year. Second died after 8 months of work. Think this is because laptop usually in the charging mode, what is not good for batteries.

Where is possible to buy new battery? Can't find anywhere :(

Thanks

Really?  It's not good for a battery for the laptop to  usually be  in the charging mode?

I always have my laptop plugged in, never use the battery to power the computer.  That's bad?!

I'm now getting message for the first time:   "87% Available (Plugged in, Not Charging)"

I have NO idea what that means!

I'm pretty sure it's the charger then. My charger's gotten looser and it's hard to hold a connection sometimes; I have to jostle the cord around a bunch in order to get it to register the charger. Once the power went out here for a split second and came back on right away, and then my laptop said it didn't recognize the charger. My laptop's gotten down to 1% remaining, plugged in, not charging, but with the fact that the charger doesn't always register, I know I've got limited time left if I can't figure out the real problem soon enough :/

did you problem get solved?

I am having the same problem after about 18 months. the battery was working fine and abruptly it stopped charging. it started over heating a few months before it happened. i was asked to try my battery on a different laptop just to see if the problem was with battery or on the motherboard. it looks like motherboard has some protective diode or something which blows up if temp gets too high to protect other vital parts.

I am having the exact same problem!!! SO upset with this system, I've had nothing but problems

I am having the exact same problem!!! I tried known good ac adapters with no luck.

Ok so i've been researching the problem and i found a forum that said updating the bios to the latest version will resolve the issue. So i started Downloading all of the bios versions for the 1526 a08, a11, a14, and a15. When i began to run the a08 update in windows i got an error right away stating that the battery had to be above 10% to ru the update. So i though i would try and trick it and boot into dos and then run the updates and this worked fine until update a14 which wouldn't let me run the bios update even from dos with the battery below 10%. I just think that it is really fun that there is a bios update that addresses issues with batteries(a14) but you can't run it unless your battery is charged above 10%. So i'd love to see if this resolves my issue but i can't because it requires my battery be charged above 10% and i can't charge my battery until i get the a14 bios update. I think you get me predicament(sp).

I have done that and IT DOES NOT WORK..........I have bios version A15 and problem is still there. I tell you what works. We have Dell Latitude E5500 at work, I used the AC adopter from E5500 and it started to charge my battery......one big difference is that E5500 uses 90 WATT AC Adopter vs 65 WATT for Inspiron 152x.

What is the dell part number of that power supply? Cause i tried using a dell part number gx808 which is also a 90 watt power suplly but that doesn't charge it, keep in mind im only at bios version a11

Dell p/n for the AC Adopter I used is:  WK890  Model: DA90PE1-00

I had to use this adopter to charge my battery to more the %10 before I could change the BIOS.

Cheers