Notebooks & Netbooks

[binod_lsd4]

I have Acer Aspire V3- 571 windows 8.1 and i recenlty ran into a strange problem. I have been using my laptop since Janauary 16 2013. Now as soon as i try to charge my laptop it gets charged for a while eg. 10 secs 14 secs or few minutes and then it stops charging and the Power light and the battery charging indicator light as well was the light on the power on switch starts blinking. The same problem occurs when i try to charge the laptop when it is off as well as when it is on. So i don't think that there is any low power supply problem in the charger. I removed the charging plug and plugged it again and it charges for a while and the same problem is repeated again. There is no loose connection with the charging pin as i removed the battery and plugged in my charger and the laptop works fine without the battery. I shook my laptop and checked and it was still working fine. But with the battery it shows the above problem. I did some research on the internet and i removed the battery and then pressed the power button for few minutes and inserted the battery again. I did many times but the problem is not gone. If somehow by plugging in the charger again and again, i manage to charge my battery full, it gives a nice backup of 2 to 3 hours so i doubt if the battery is dead. And once the battery is full there is no such problem too. It simply says the battery is fully charged and AC plugged in indicator is shown. I have the most recent BIOS update too. I also tried to uninstall the Microsoft ACPI enabled control method battery driver and reinstalled it by refreshing but still the problem is not fixed. Is Acer laptops full of such problems. Are we desperate to watch and waste our money on unknown issues?? Please help me with this problem doing some expert research. Regards,

[JackE]

While powered down and no charger, try pulling the battery and re-inserting a half-dozen or so times.  Then re-insert one last time and, while applying continuous manual pressure to the battery, see if it charges normally. Report back.

Thanks

Jack E/NJ 

[nic1]

i have this exact same problem with a v3 571 using windows 7home basic.  Could there not be a bad connection between the charger input port and the connector on the motherboard... infact where would one find a dissassembly manual so i can check proper... although i have already dismantled before finding this post... silly me, but i have not done too badly at all. i want to test the cable running from the power input port to the motherboard, i can only think that that could be the reason. question to ace.... why would doing the in and out thing help, would that be maybe the contacts arent making proper contact? i discovered while all plugged in and pushing power button repeatedly the blue light comes on every other press or so.  also im not getting the 10 second charge light like the windows 8 machine anymore... it has just totally stopped... if i charge the battery somehow i think that may help... im gna get my boets acer aspire battery so i can get power and run a few tests using hirens maybe. just the lights coming on now and then with every press tells me no power is been kept... my boet did charge this battery in his laptop and it did charge so it cant be the battery neither... he ran out of ideas and now its by me.  could anything possibly be wrong on the board? i hope for an speedy suggestion, if i make any discoveries then i will post ok.

[JackE]

nic1>>>why would doing the in and out thing help, would that be maybe the contacts arent making proper contact?>>>

Yes, you are correct, that is what I was thinking.

You have some good ideas to test for other possibilities that might require some disassembly to access the ribbon cables and check for bad connections. Here is a video of disassembling/re-assembling the V3 series which may be a more useful guide to you than any hardware manual avalable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAMlm2_FvY

Good luck

Jack E/NJ