Laptop Battery Question (simple)

[surfdoc]

I have a year and a half old HP Ze4560 Laptop and the battery won't hold a charge at all. When its plugged in the power meter on the bottom right always says 0% (charging) but it never gets any charge and when I unplug it the unit immediately shuts off.

Will buying a new battery ($150) solve this problem or do I need to just leave it plugged in on the desk and buy a new laptop? I took it to CompUSA already but the bastards want $140 just to look at it. Thanks in advance.

[KingMarc]

The same thing happened a couple months ago to my Dell.

This seemed to work:

1) Take out the battery, and connect the laptop through AC power.
2) Turn on laptop
3) Insert battery

Actually I can't remember if I then had to turn off the laptop, and insert battery, or insert it when it was on.

This fixed it though. So play around with it, and you'll get it.

[surfdoc]

Hmmmm, that doesn't seem to be helping. Any other ideas?

[emonrad87]

Your battery is probably just a paper weight now. It happens. Unless you are considering buying a new laptop anyway, it seems like spending the $150 and seeing if it helps is better than the $1500 for a new unit when $150 would have done the trick.

[MowrMowr]

The battery is probably dead...get the part number and get one on Ebay for $30-$50 and give it shot. Do *NOT* go to CompUSA...if you really want someone to look at it, find a small shop that will charge you 50% less...there's no reason to feed the huge corporations more money!

[surfdoc]

I do want a new one because I am a man after all and love electronics. I just have to deal with the woman... Damn, maybe I am not that much of a man.

[Eder]

If it was a Dell you just need to talk to an Indian and they send you a new one in 2 days...dunno about HP..(yes it happened to my Inspiron)

[TheHammer24]

In general, it is the battery, but I cannot tell you with 100% certainty. The only benefit of buying one of bestbuy's rip off 3 year warranties is they will replace the battery when this happens. I think you can fix the problem by buying a battery.

[David]

Same thing on my HP. The battery was toast. Try these guys, they had some of the best prices I found.

Laptop Batteries (http://www.kahlon.com/)

[David]

Here is a direct link to your battery.
direct link (http://www.kahlon.com/rm608514_Hewlett-Packard_Pavilion_Notebook_ze4560us.html)

[surfdoc]

Thats awesome. Thanks. I was wasting so much time looking on ebay and this site is spot on.