# Laptop battery trouble.. help? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 4, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507 "2009-02-04T21:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kenmxz13](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kenmxz13/32/5288_2.png) [@kenmxz13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kenmxz13)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/1 "2009-02-04T21:33:59Z")
Hey all, I’ve got a dell lattitude D630, running vista. All the sudden my battery isn’t charging past 45%. It says that it’s charging, that the battery health is normal, but the battery meter has been stuck at 45 for a while now. I’ve tried restarting but it didn’t change anything. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/2 "2009-02-04T21:51:56Z")
[http://computers.shop.ebay.com/items/For-Dell\_\_dell-latitude-D630\_W0QQ\_catrefZ1QQ\_flnZ1QQ\_sacatZ14297QQ\_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em282?\_trksid=p3286.c0.m282](http://computers.shop.ebay.com/items/For-Dell__dell-latitude-D630_W0QQ_catrefZ1QQ_flnZ1QQ_sacatZ14297QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em282?_trksid=p3286.c0.m282) ---
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/3 "2009-02-05T04:13:34Z")
lol @ how you didnt even put the word battery in the search and thats all you got for results… ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/4 "2009-02-05T04:34:24Z")
> [@travisn](#): > > lol @ how you didnt even put the word battery in the search and thats all you got for results… I filtered the search: - [Home](http://www.ebay.com/) \> - [Buy](http://hub.shop.ebay.com/) \> - [Computers & Networking](http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Computers-Networking__W0QQ_sacatZ58058?_npmv=3) \> - [Desktop & Laptop Accessories](http://computers.shop.ebay.com/items/Desktop-Laptop-Accessories__W0QQ_sacatZ31530?_npmv=3) \> - [Laptop Batteries](http://computers.shop.ebay.com/items/Laptop-Batteries__W0QQ_sacatZ14295?_npmv=3) \> - [For Dell](http://computers.shop.ebay.com/items/For-Dell__W0QQ_sacatZ14297?_npmv=3) \> - **Search results** ---
**Author:** ![Hortanica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Hortanica](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hortanica)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/5 "2009-02-05T04:49:51Z")
Try re-seating the battery + blow compressed air over the contacts (if you have some) ---
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/6 "2009-02-05T05:36:12Z")
Oh, it didn’t really say that from what I could immediatly see ---
**Author:** ![kenmxz13](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kenmxz13/32/5288_2.png) [@kenmxz13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kenmxz13)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/7 "2009-02-05T13:51:58Z")
> [@MKE](#): > > Try re-seating the battery + blow compressed air over the contacts (if you have some) I just tried that, but it didn’t work. It says that it’s charging, but it’s not getting any closer to being fully charged. I don’t want to just buy a new battery since I’m not sure whether it’s the problem. (The “battery health” is “normal” as of right now) ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/8 "2009-02-05T14:00:28Z")
Judging by the symptoms the battery is more than likely shot. ---
**Author:** ![plastiqmanb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/plastiqmanb/32/3136_2.png) [@plastiqmanb](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/plastiqmanb)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/laptop-battery-trouble-help/62507/9 "2009-02-05T16:03:33Z")
hopefully its not your charging system on the motherboard, i’d try a new battery first.