I Get No Kick From AC

Having tried all of the reasonable solutions for fixing the Dell laptop that was victimized by the Gatorade and which now refuses to charge the battery -- although it seems to run fine when plugged in, except that I still need to replace the keyboard (replacement arrives Friday!) -- I figured it was time to try spending money. I've purchased a replacement DC power jack which I'll try installing over the weekend when I replace the new keyboard. In the meantime, hey! A spare power adapter isn't a *bad* thing to have...

So I bought a new 65W Dell power adapter for the laptop. It works great, the BIOS says that it's providing 65W of power -- and that the battery health is *excellent*.

Darned shame that the battery still won't charge.

I guess I'm going to have to put in that new jack.

This is *not* a simple repair.

*sigh*