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hurmzz · October 17th, 2007, 09:08 AM

Hello everybody!
I am having a problem with my nc6000 too.

The notebook doesn't charge the battery.
If it is connected to the adapter it says it is "connected to AC power, but not charging the battery." in the system tray.
The amber lightning strike LED stay's off.
By now my battery is 0% and so it only runs on AC power.

In the beginning i could twist and turn the AC adapter plug and sometimes the amber light would go on but that too doesn't work anymore.

I'm sure it's not the battery because I've tried another one allready.

And from logic thinking I derived that it can't be the AC adapter jack, since then it woudn't receive any AC power, and the notebook woudn't work at all, right??

Does anybody know what to do about this or have an idea?

Jack_Johnson · October 29th, 2007, 08:57 PM

hey, im not to sure how much help that this could be, but, i was having the same isssue as you hurmzz (kinda).

I know that this isnt the best thing for it, but usualy i keep my laptop plugged in most of the time. one day after getting home i played around on my laptop and got some work done, when i realized that the battery was getting a little low i plugged it back in (it was around 35%) and left it be while i got some other things done, when i came back i didnt see the charge light on so i assumed that it was fully charged. seeing as how i work where it was plugged in i didnt unplug it to work. sometime after i realized that windows (XPsp2) was reading the battery as full (the icon said running off ac power, nothin about charging like it normally does) but... the batteries power was still only at like 35%. this had me a little nervous so i looked into it...
saddly your problem was one of the few problems like this that i found. a few places reported that buying a new battery would solve the problem but the battery is only a few months old so i continued looking into the issue. one thing that you may want to try is check your battery- if you havent bought a battery and yours doesnt work yet then you may have a bad battery. i got out an old multimeter and tested my battery... it read at 11.3 volts- it was only rated for 10.8 im not sure if this small voltage difference would have made a difference but about two days after that reading the battery started charging again. maybe your battery is doing something that makes the laptop see it as dangerous for the system.
About jiggling the cord to get the battery to charge- not sure how that would affect it, not saying your lying, just sounds unusual. i have heard that some of these batteries will charge for around 30 seconds before they quit again, maybe your original battery had a problem like that and jiggling it was cutting the power shortly and acting like it was being plugged in and unplugged.
As for the second battery not working, a few battery problems i heave heard about were more the fault of the laptop. one thing... make sure that your battery is getting proper contact to the laptop, if its not all touching then power cant flow to it (if you were jiggling with a little force u moved the battery?) also there have been some problems in the bios or somethin, if you still are going crazy trying to fix the issue try lookin up something along those lines on google.
Im sorry if anything that i posted is incorrect but im just tryin to pass along anything that helped me. if anyone comes by and notices somethins wrong leave it up, i get the feeling that this has happened to alot of other people who havent posted about it

mediaripples · December 12th, 2007, 01:46 PM

Hi,

I have got a HP nc6000 i have formated the HD & i am not able to load the windows XP when ever i try to do that does not allows me to do so. is there any possiblity of loading the XP. please help me out friends.

Vin1000 · December 12th, 2007, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mediaripples

Hi,

I have got a HP nc6000 i have formated the HD & i am not able to load the windows XP when ever i try to do that does not allows me to do so. is there any possiblity of loading the XP. please help me out friends.

Need a lot more information!!!!!!

Did you format the hard drive?

Have you chosen boot from cd in the bios?

What error message does it give you?

Did it have Vista installed before?

mediaripples · December 15th, 2007, 12:40 PM

no it did not had visa i had xp i try boot it for bios as well but this what the error comes up

38155mb disk 0at id0 on ban0 on atapi (mbr)

this what the error says i dont have a floppy disk in my laptop.

ya i did format the harddisk.

Vin1000 · December 15th, 2007, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mediaripples

no it did not had visa i had xp i try boot it for bios as well but this what the error comes up

38155mb disk 0at id0 on ban0 on atapi (mbr)

this what the error says i dont have a floppy disk in my laptop.

ya i did format the harddisk.

Not sure what the first line means.

Does it say you don't have a floppy or does it say it can't find the hard drive?

TBH - you need to be a LOT clearer.

If its "hard drive" then it is a sata issue - you have to disable SATA Native from the bios.

mediaripples · December 16th, 2007, 07:57 AM

the first line means that i did not had vista installed but i tried to install but it did not work.

it does says floppy can't find but that is only when i press F6 at the first place. if i dont do so and leave it for installing then it come up as
38155mb disk 0at id0 on ban0 on atapi (mbr)

this is when i have deleted the partiction & formated it.

Frankiebo · January 2nd, 2008, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by nixz

Hey guys, I am having problems too with the NC6000. I have been trying to remove the Hard Drive so that I could replace it with a new one. However, the original hard drive seems like it is jammed. I have tried pulling on the tab several times but the hard drive does not release. Could someone explain to me how to remove the hard drive? Thanks in advance

Just a dumb question - there are 2 screws. Did you remove both beforehand?

pete77 · January 19th, 2008, 03:19 PM

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bobbyforhire · January 22nd, 2008, 06:19 PM

Hello all, I recently was given an nc6000 due to the fact that the machine was hard to turn on and also it was hard to keep running. I have looked over everything and have come down to this.

1 - The max chip on the motherboard is in a bad spot but if your willing to try a re-sodder your just about as crazy as most people.

2 - Using a heat gun is also crazy i mean yeah sure it sound cool but how many people out there are willing to spend 129$ on a heat gun when you can just buy a new motherboard that fixes this issue (2.0+ fixes this issue)

3 - How did i fix this issue? Simple...I used a piece of hard rubber and electrical tape. I made sure to put the rubber right onto the chip (this rubber can't be to big but has to be big enough to put pressure on the chip when you screw everything in) then placed the electrical tape to one side of the motherboard and the other on the other side ( thus keeping the rubber in place while i screw back in the mobo). Once i have done this i have no issue with the laptop not charging and it boots up no matter what the weather is or how hot i keep my room.

So if your cheap or don't know how to sodder this is a workable work around on the max chip fix.

Http://www.BobbyForHire.com

Bobby