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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February 12th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I have a toshiba satellite that I just bought. The battery will charge up to 99% and then discharge to zero when on a/c power. I cant get it to go to 100%. I have tried to get a new battery. This is the third one. I might have it looked at. But if you have any insight please tell me. My Bios is up to date also. I have a satellite A-1357406
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
mrtajib,
Maybe there is something wrong with the AC adapter? Test voltage with a voltmeter and make sure it’s the same as labeled on the adapter.
January 21st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
i have a problem here.
please give an advise. thanks
January 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Rod,
what ur saying doesnt make sense about putting the batteries in the frezer..!!
but since my toshiba battery died on me in 15months iam gonna try it out anywayz, hope it works
January 6th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Wayne,
these toshiba batteries are messed up man, iam glad too see that iam not the only deceased here
January 6th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
to Val Ames,
lk for the model no on the battery near the bar codes on it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 am
I have a Satellite A100-523 model: PSAA2E and am having same trouble charging battery. The charge light goes on when connected to mains power and stays on for a number of hours but finally goes out without indicating battery is charged and charge still indicates 0%. As the model number is not listed in any of the model options I can’t even try downloading the BIOS to see if this helps. Am I missing something in identifying model? Or is there anything else I can try and get battery to charge. Computer is only around 20 months old so can’t believe the battery is simply dead!
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Jimmy,
You’ll have to send your laptop to Toshiba or take it to the authorized repair center.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:54 am
I have a Toshiba M105-S3064 and after a Windows Update reboot yesterday my computer won’t get past POST. It keeps asking me for a password, which I have never set. I know this is a “known” problem for some Toshiba laptops but I didn’t see my model listed there. Is there a half-way easy way to reset the cmos and clear out the pw, or poss a master generic pw, or am I stuck sending it off and being without it for a while? Thanks.
December 13th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
RE: Toshiba A105 S2091 Battery problem resloved! History:
New Toshibab Satellite A105 purchased May 2006. A few months later Toshiba recalled the original battery & sent me a replacement. Right from the beginning instead of getting 40-45 minutes like I used to, only getting maximum 30 minutes use. I updated my Bios to V2.2 but the battery continued to deteriorate & really started to lose power a month or so ago, with useage dropping to as little as 2 or 3 minutes until finally it would no longer even power up the laptop. Same symptoms as many on the Web: the yellow charge light would come on for about 10 seconds or so then turn off with the battery showing 0% charge. I was just about ready to throw it away last week when I remembered an old trick we used to use for many re-chargeable batteries that were losing their charge: put the battery in the freezer for 30 minutes or so, then try to charge again. I brought back quite a few batteries doing that over the past 25 years. I had no idea if a Lithium Ion would act the same but it did! I placed mine in the freezer for 30 minutes, took it out and put it back in the Toshiba. The yellow charge light turned on AND STAYED ON. I couldn’t believe it a first, but after approximately 4 hours, the battery was back to 100% charge and back to giving me approx. 30 minutes of use. It has since been through at least a half dozen discharge/charge cycles & is still working. Just thought I would pass along this old trick & hopefully it will work for someone else too!