Today I got Toshiba Satellite A105-S2712 for repair with the battery charging problem. It is a new model and we do not have a lot of experience with these laptops. The customer complained that the laptop will not charge the battery when it is plugged into the AC outlet.

The laptop failure symptoms:

The laptop will not turn on when I try to start it from the battery. When the laptop is turned off and plugged into the AC outlet the battery charge LED doesn’t light up. I know that the battery is not charged and the LED should light up when I plug the laptop into the AC outlet. The laptop starts fine when it is plugged. When I move the mouse over the Toshiba Power Icon in the lower right corner, the balloon will pop up and there is a line in there: Battery Remaining: N/A.

The problem repair procedure:

You can easily fix the problem just by updating the BIOS. Toshiba says that the BIOS version should be at least v1.30. So, go to Toshiba website and click on Downloads. Select your laptop model and find any downloads for the BIOS. In the BIOS change history you will see the description of changes.

After I updated the BIOS, the battery charging problem disappeared.

 

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232 Responses to “Toshiba Satellite A105 battery charging problem”

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  1. 232
    meg Says:

    I’ve got a toshiba laptop and my charger broke in it beacuse it snaped and now I have brought and new universal charger but the charger light will not come on and it also hasn’t been charged over a year so what shall I do? Please help!

  2. 231
    cj2600 Says:

    @ Livan,

    I have a toshiba Satellite L645 Laptop.. Problem is that when I charge it, then its done, it loses battery fast.. What to do?

    Sounds like bad battery. I would try replacing the battery. Make sure to find the original Toshiba battery, not a cheap/compatible battery.

  3. 230
    Livan Says:

    I have a toshiba Satellite L645 Laptop.. Problem is that when I charge it, then its done, it loses battery fast.. What to do?

  4. 229
    cj2600 Says:

    @ Clyde,

    How can I download the updates if the laptop will not stay on!

    What do you mean the laptop will not stay on? It starts properly and shuts down after that or it will not start at all?
    Maybe overheating problem?

  5. 228
    Clyde Says:

    How can I download the updates if the laptop will not stay on! I have purchased a new motherboard, charger and battery and still now computer. What a DA. $300 in a $100 laptop. Thanks for nothing Toshiba.

  6. 227
    cj2600 Says:

    @ Jeffrey,

    I have a toshiba satellite M115-S1071 unit. The unit just displays the light in the A/C led and the ON led and sometimes the wifi led when i plug it on A/C and same display with the battery. I have taken the unit apart and tried isolate the problem by removing a device at a time. eventually i removed them all along with the processor but it still shows same symptoms..

    Probably this is motherboard failure. I don’t think this laptop worth replacing the motherboard.

  7. 226
    Jeffrey Says:

    HELP. I have a toshiba satellite M115-S1071 unit. The unit just displays the light in the A/C led and the ON led and sometimes the wifi led when i plug it on A/C and same display with the battery. I have taken the unit apart and tried isolate the problem by removing a device at a time. eventually i removed them all along with the processor but it still shows same symptoms..

    any suggestions?? thanks…

  8. 225
    JJ Says:

    Hi Guys,

    I´m having a strange issue with my Toshiba Satellite L300.
    about a month ago after a windows update my computer froze and i had to reset, when it started back up the CPU was maxing out most of the time and Nortons antivirus was saying it couldn´t do anything as it is missing a file, this was fine but it got worse.

    Soon after the computer would randomly be off when i went to use it in the morning, a week or so later it would start randomly restarting when i tried to start it. I did a defrag, check disk, virus, malware and spyware check all showed no problems at the issue got worse. it then started to reset while i was using it.

    Today i thought i would try a Toshiba system recovery but i was on battery when i started this and part way through i had to plug it into the mains, straight away the laptop turned off then started back up, windows was not able to boot because “the installation was interupted” and my recovery partiton is gone also.

    I have tried plugging the mains in without battery and the problem continues. Also i had tried different ram before i started the restore with no luck.

    Any thoughts?

    also i am not in the country i brought the laptop from and i dont speak the native language of this country.

  9. 224
    Real Says:

    I have toshiba satellite L300, when I plug in the AC adapter It will power but when I remove the Ac adapter the Laptop will switch off and beside when the laptop is on the AC adapter it will not charge I bought a new battery thinking it was the problem but still it was’t charging. when the laptop is On AC adapter the system reboot at random, I tried formating and reloading the operating system on getting to 10% of completion the laptop restarts. Can some pls tell how to fix this problem.

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    Delezgy Says:

    I have a laptop toshiba Satellite the problem is that it shutdown and sometimes restart of i have to press the power button to put it on, what do i do?

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