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Inspiron 7559 - adapter not recognized
My Inspirion 7559 starting getting the "battery not recognized" about six months ago. It IS a dell adapter. Recently, it stopped charging the battery. Now my battery is stuck at three percent. I'm sure that low of a charge is bad for Li-ion.
Things I've tried:
- Reinstalled Windows 10- no change.
- Diagnosed the battery with the diagnostic software in the bios (terrible program) says the battery is fine.
- Tried different outlets with known good grounding-no change.
- I want to flash the BIOS but cant under 15% battery (unhooked the battery and tried that way too).
I have noticed that this brick of an adapted no longer gets as hot as it used to and this problem got worse over a 6 month period. I was getting the message months ago, but the battery was still charging and the laptop ran fine.
I would love to press F3 to remove the message that its the wrong adapter, but F3 doesn't do anything on my 7559 during boot
I am beginning to wonder if Dell just has inferior power adapters. (there pages of complaints over 6 years that I can find)
My next step is getting my muiltmeter to check the adapter output (hopefully in a few days)
Any other suggestions folks?
sleddingblood
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February 11th, 2018 23:00
I figured it out.
Dell makes "body waste" for adapters, probably wont buy another
There are forums out there talking about it...
http://techmonks.net/bypassing-the-dell-unrecognized-adapter-issue/
http://www.laptop-junction.com/toast/content/inside-dell-ac-power-adapter-mystery-revealed
http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f108/solved-signal-pin-on-power-supply-of-dell-9400-a-978818.html
A power supply should last longer than 1 year. Let me know if you'll send me another 130W power supply or is this Dells way of creating corporate consumable income?
ejn63
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February 12th, 2018 03:00
First thing to try is a new adapter - if that does not solve the issue, replace the DC jack, and if that doesn't do it, replace the mainboard.
This is a hardware problem - no BIOS update will fix it.