Hi

Inspiron 8100 has a very strange battery problem. With the battery connected the notebook will not boot. Remove the battery and run straight off the ac power, boots and runs with no problems. Insert the battery whilst still running and the notebook freezes solid. Remove battery, notebook still frozen solid ! Have tried 3 different batteries with same reult. Swap battery into media bay and notebook goes a bit crazy with mouse pointer doing around 200mph but not freezing. Have swapped the dc board out (though not known if a good one) for another and problem still persists. Any ideas anybody? Other than that machine works 100%.

 

cheers