Vaio battery charging problem

[Boris999]

For about two weeks I was experiencing problems with charging battery on my Sony Vaio PCG-Z1XMP.

The system tray battery indicator kept constantly changing between charging / not charging. About every 30 seconds. Recently the icon settled at charging, but the battery level stays at 0% and won't go up.

Battery Characteristics from PowerPanel:

Manufacturer: Sony Corp.
Battery Name: PCGA-BP2V
Chemistry: Li-ion
Charge Cycles: 362
Remaining Capacity: 0.00 Wh
Full Charge Capacity: 37.65 Wh
Design Capacity: 48.84

Please advise whether the problem is with the battery, power supply or anything else.

Many thanks
Boris

[lieven]

Have you tried removing the battery and running on AC power only? This should work, if not I would suspect that your AC adaptor is faulty.

Hi Rich,

I've tried to run it without the battery, but it does't work.
The power led lights up for a millisecond and that's all.
Ive been thinking of a faulty charger.
But the thing is that charger LED does bun and that it sometimes does charge (for a couple of seconds or so) and then doesn't.
Most of the time when a charger is broken, it doesn't do a thing.

Perhaps I should try to see if I can find another charger to test it with.

[lieven]

There is one weird thing though.
The battery charger doesn't warm up at all.
I hope you're right about this Rich.

[Boris999]

I have reinstalled utils.exe. Unfortunately, no difference.

[carthorian]

I suspect a malfunction in your charger. If still under waranty, call the hotline and they shoot provide you with a new one for free.

[lieven]

I've just bought a new ac adapter on Ebay (hope to receive it next week), so we'll see.

Unfortunately, the laptop is out of warranty.

[rich912]

 I've just bought a new ac adapter on Ebay (hope to receive it next week), so we'll see.

Fingers crossed for you lieven:smileygood_luck:

[lieven]

Today I received my new battery charger and guess what.
It works!

Now I can finally turn on the laptop with only the charger connected and the battery charges without interuption.

Thanks for the tips and support u guys!

Now I can truly say I'm a happy Vaio user and close the case at E-support. :smileygrin:

[Boris999]

I bought a new charger which appears to have solved the problems.

Thanks for all the useful replies to this post.

[rich912]

Pleased to hear of the successful outcome for both of you:smileyhappy:

[LolBantaFc]

Hello Sony

How are You?

What's wrong is that my charger keeps making a beep sound and whilst its doing that i can't charge my PC and after it takes longer for my PC to charge.

Please Help Me

Thanks

Regards

Ismail Kalam