Hello! Great info here. I have a HP Pavillion 1150 with the same problem. I've followed your guidance and I've fixed it, partially.
I've soldered the live, ground and switch wire to the power connector. At first I could see an arc when attaching the AC, so I took out the switch wire. It now charges the battery, and the laptop comes on!! :)
The problem is that it only stays on for 30 seconds, 100% of the time with both the battery and AC. I can get into the BIOS, but it still switches itself off after 30 seconds. Also tried bootdisk from CD, same problem. It looks like everything else is in working order: CPU, Memory, CDROM...just keeps cutting out.
Any ideas? Could the switchwire have been connected to the incorrect polarity? One other thing I've noticed is that when its on AC, the power and the battery light shows charging (as it would normally). But when its on battery power, it shows that its powered up but the battery light does not illuminate. I'm at a loss...!
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Date: 2005-03-01 12:30 pm (UTC)I've soldered the live, ground and switch wire to the power connector. At first I could see an arc when attaching the AC, so I took out the switch wire. It now charges the battery, and the laptop comes on!! :)
The problem is that it only stays on for 30 seconds, 100% of the time with both the battery and AC. I can get into the BIOS, but it still switches itself off after 30 seconds. Also tried bootdisk from CD, same problem. It looks like everything else is in working order: CPU, Memory, CDROM...just keeps cutting out.
Any ideas? Could the switchwire have been connected to the incorrect polarity? One other thing I've noticed is that when its on AC, the power and the battery light shows charging (as it would normally). But when its on battery power, it shows that its powered up but the battery light does not illuminate. I'm at a loss...!