Acer Aspire V5-131 Battery and Power LED constantly blinks while charging

janjulien

The unit was recently bought 4 days ago, so everything's new. Until this afternoon, whenever I plug in the charger, the battery indicator in the bottom tray says, "Plugged in, charging", but after a few moments, the plugged in icon changes into one that's not plugged in (battery use). Then it returns back to charging state, then back again to not charging state. Then permanently stays on a not charging state with the two front LEDs, (battery and power), blinking constantly, as well as the power indicator LED on the power switch. I tried to do the static discharge thing to no avail. I removed the battery and tried to use only the AC adapter, and it works fine, but whenever I place the battery back, the symptoms I described returns.

 

The only thing that I remembered that happened this afternoon is it's the first time I have drained my battery, although I do not know if the battery really drained because I was playing a game (from Microsoft Store), and it suddenly shuts off and the last one I saw was a notification saying that the battery level is 7%.

 

This V5-131 is the one with a Celeron 1007U (1.5GHz) processor and a Windows 8 Single Language OS. 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

-Julien

ScottyC

Either your charger is gone or your power board. I would suggest grabbing another charger or just exchanging the unit considering you've only had it for a short time.

janjulien

I guess that would be the most viable option. So, it's a factory defect? It has nothing to do with what I have done right?

 

Thanks again.

 

-Julien

ScottyC

Unless you somehow accidentally broke the connector in the pc itself no this sounds like a dead adapter to me. I'd call Acer and have them send you a new charger to be sure, if it doesn't work then you know you need to have it repaired.