Computer dorks...need your help. Thanks
 

Left HP power cord in montreal. Couldn't use my laptop for a good week or so. Bought a generic power cord for my laptop. Its powering the laptop but not charging the battery.

Is it possible the problem is the generic power cord? Do I need one from HP? Anyone have any prior experiences with Pavilions? Its only about 2 months old.

Make sure the power cord is pluged in. That could be the problem :winkwink:

check :winkwink:

Hmm.. sounds weird.... generic power cord, not generic adapter?

sorry. my mistake. make that Generic Adapter.

model number of laptop and brand model of power adapter?

Might not be able to supply enough amperage for the charge circuit. Compare specs..

well, it might be giving it the right amount of volts but wrong amph...

HP DV1000
iGo power adapter

Dorks funny way to ask for help . I am surprised you got any.

who designed your sig? A 4 year old?
Dude you didn't have to come in here...but you did.

I said dorks as a term of endearment. I being a big one. Stop being so sensitive...this is the interweb :helpme

Calling HP to have a chat with them tomorrow. Thanks for the help dorks. :thumbsup

LOL, sensitive dorks prefer to be called geeks:glugglug

Gotta be wrong voltage........

according to iGO they list the DV1000 as requiring the iGO JUICE + Charging tip 2 (included). The other universal adapters they have do not list the dv1000 in thier respective compatability tables so if you don't have the JUICE it seems thats the first thing that would need to change.

If you DO have the JUICE , I'd talk to iGO first as the smart money is on HP saying "not our ac adapter?....can't help ya". Since iGO specifically says they support your model it's probably your path of least resistance.


Good Luck....266-835-420 if you need any assistance or other questions.

Here's the low down on power and batteries and shit like that.
I've worked on a buncha pavilions.. since yours is so new I would be willing to bet dollars to donuts it's one of those fast charge nimh packs in it.. definitely not a nicad pack you'd be charging in one that new.. so... what ya do is this.. you got the right.. well cord plugged in and like they say .. you gotta have the juice... now u can do all the math on this u want, i suck at math. But do this.. take the battery pack outa the pavilion and look at it. If you look close enough.. you'll see the voltage and mah rating of the battery and it'll tell you the battery type.

Simple enough so far.. lol.. hang with me for a sec..

So take a look at the power module attached to your power cord.. cause cords come about in two flavors tip positive or tip negative.. in one way another they're gonna get both ends covered one way or another... easy enough.

Okay.. on the battery pack.. you'll see a voltage.. it could be.. oh jeez.. anything I don't know what model and am too lazy to go look .. lol.. anyway.. you'll see the voltage on the power pack and it may be 12v 13.5, .. it could be almost anything really.. it all depends on the pack and the battery type.

The voltage on the battery pack.. and the voltage on the power module need to match exactly, the thing attached to your generic and hopefully removable power cord... these things ususally almost always consist of a cord that plugs into a module that charges.

Now.. if your computer is working when it's plugged into the module and powered up and all you have changed is the cord.. then there are 2 possibilities.. either the battery pack is shot or the power module.

Both are notorious for failure.. because.. shit.. I don't wanna get too technical but there are regulated and non regulated power supplies.. u def want regulated... and voltages.. say on a 12v charger.. on a cheap one it might only be 10.5v or.. 15v varying in between.. and I do know for a fact.. why I've retained this... i've no idea.. but 26% of all computer failures are due to a faulty power supply.

I don't want to get into ohms law and shit like that but here's the ez breakdown.. Let's say you got a 12v 2500 mah battery pack and a 12v 500 mah nimh charger, it's gonna take about 5 hours to charge. Assuming everything is all good.

It could have a pack that is supposed to charge in say.. 15 minutes.. and u may have bought a generic power supply that only had 150 mah of juice, u mite have enough power to run your ... whatever.. but there wouldn't be enough left over to charge the pack.

On the other hand.. if you plug the wrong kind of charger with the wrong kind of voltage into the wrong pack.. or like a tip positive battery pack that you plug into a tip negative battery oh boy.. iv'e done this one too.. they will literally catch fire and blow up. Done it, got the t shirt.

Okay.. last thing.. there's always a catch.. a nicad (nickel cadmium) charger won't charge nimh batteries (that's nickel metal hydride).

Depending on your model it may have a different kind of battery entirely, there are so many flavors.

But whatever you got, whatever the voltage, whatever the computer, regardless.. it's gonna fail eventually.

Not too hard to sort out if you look real close at that teensy print they put on the bottom of battery packs and usually on the backs of power modlules.

I got boxes and boxes of good packs and bad ones.. there's a lot more bad ones than good ones..

You can also just feel a power pack and tell if it's working.. it'll get warm if it is.. and as for a battery pack.. same thing.. it'll get warm if it's charging.. it won't if there's not enough juice.. (usually measured in amp hours or milliamp hours).. the battery pack just wouldn't be able to get the job done.

Crash course in power supplies.. lol.. sorry if I got too technical.. tried to keep it somewhat understandable at least. ;-)

rokk on and fix that thang!

saves the day :thumbsup

lol... :thumbsup
gotta keep it rokkin! ;-)))