Some laptop power management hardware will refuse to function properly if the battery is dead, so it's quite possible that replacing the battery will fix the problem.
Might be worth trying to run the machine with no battery in it to see if that's the cause of the fault.
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Date: 2009-05-26 10:29 pm (UTC)Might be worth trying to run the machine with no battery in it to see if that's the cause of the fault.