Acer laptop and problems charging

mighty_reds

Hi All

My girlfriend has an Acer Aspire 5612WLMi laptop. It's about 3 years old now. About 6 months ago her original Acer charger stopped working. The cost of a new one is about £60 so she tried a generic (cheaper) charger off e-bay that was listed to work with this model.

It worked fine for a few months but only works sporadically now. A sign sometimes comes up saying the laptop does not recognise the charger and it will have periods of charging and not charging.

The answer may seem simple.... get a proper Acer charger BUT.... we've noticed that if you slightly manipulate the charger lead directly at the back of the laptop it will charge but this is a pain in the behind to constantly have to do.

Because it's now the 2nd charger she's had problems with, we are wondering if it will be just £60 down the drain if she get's a new Acer laptop if it turns out its the actual laptop thats the problem and not the charger.

I would have though a charger either works or not, and doesn't need to be physically manipulated at the back of the laptop to get a charge?

Is it just a matter of getting a new Acer charger and hoping for the best, or does anyone here actually think it's likely that the laptop's the problem?

Cheers

scottishf

If you have to manipulate it to get it to work; either means that the charger is a bad fit, or that the connection on the laptop has been damaged causing the charger to fit badly. If the fault is in the laptop connection could be costly to fix if indeed it is possible.

mighty_reds

Paul_R wrote: »

I know this sounds stupid, what is the BIOS version? If it's not 3.6 then I'd upgrade it.

My own Acer One had a battery charge problem earlier this year, simply loading the latest BIOS fixed it.

If this helps, fine, but it's not going to cost you anything to do. Link here.

Thanks for that but could not find the correct model on the list presented to me.