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If your laptop has a dead battery, should you remove it?

sb44
sb44 Posts: 5,203 Forumite
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If you have a laptop/netbook which has a dead battery, so have it plugged in, should you take out the battery and just have an empty space there?

The only reason I ask is I have just seen this on a Thinkpad forum, Do bear in mind that running a machine with a dead battery will eventually blow the charging circuit.


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  • Ade_Sands
    Ade_Sands Posts: 8 Forumite
    edited 16 December 2013 at 1:24PM
    yes! from my own experiences, I have a laptop with a dead battery, my machine would not power on at all. even plugged in. so I removed the battery, had the gap underneath. It works fine, albeit requires to be plugged in to work. My laptop is a HP by the way. I have had a bad experience with charging a dead lithium ion battery on a phone, and I believe lithium ion cells are used in laptop batteries.
  • sb44
    sb44 Posts: 5,203 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Ade_Sands wrote: »
    yes! from my own experiences, I have a laptop with a dead battery, my machine would not power on at all. even plugged in. so I removed the battery, had the gap underneath. It works fine, albeit requires to be plugged in to work. My laptop is a HP by the way. I have had a bad experience with charging a dead lithium ion battery on a phone, and I believe lithium ion cells are used in laptop batteries.

    Thanks, always handy to know.

    ;)
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