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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May 6th, 2012 at 11:22 am
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!
December 26th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
@ Livan,
Sounds like bad battery. I would try replacing the battery. Make sure to find the original Toshiba battery, not a cheap/compatible battery.
December 25th, 2011 at 8:14 am
I have a toshiba Satellite L645 Laptop.. Problem is that when I charge it, then its done, it loses battery fast.. What to do?
November 2nd, 2011 at 5:26 pm
@ Clyde,
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?
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:44 pm
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.
October 24th, 2011 at 6:44 am
@ Jeffrey,
Probably this is motherboard failure. I don’t think this laptop worth replacing the motherboard.
October 24th, 2011 at 2:38 am
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…
July 28th, 2011 at 11:03 am
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.
July 27th, 2011 at 1:58 am
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.
July 24th, 2011 at 4:39 am
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?