w_tom writes:

On Sep 3, 1:27 pm, "news.rcn.com" news.rnc.com wrote:
If it IS just a contact problem, surely just spraying it with WD40 will make
the problem completely go away for at least a while until the metal under
the 'oil' starts encountering the carbon again? And for fear of repeating
myself, why am I getting all these mysterious problems with the calibration
utility if the problem is with the contacts?

Contacts are self cleaning. That applies both to connectors and to
contacts on battery.

You are speculating what is a problem; then trying to fix based only
on speculation. In but minutes with a meter you (or those who can
provide better information) would know rather than just speculate.
Everything posted is just speculation. Anyone with sufficient
technical knowledge to provide a useful answer will post nothing -
because no useful facts have been provided.

For example, what is that battery voltage? Now we can say if the
battery is charged. What is battery voltage when connected in system
or voltage on connector to that battery; measured when AC power is
applied and is disconnected.

Why are you getting weird calibration problems? Nobody who could
answer that question will even post because you don't provide numbers
necessary to answer that question. First essential numbers are in the
previous paragraph.

Meanwhile, WD-40 is a worst solution possible. Contacts are self
cleaning. Those with sufficient knowledge to answer your questions
would have also noted why contact contamination does not exist.

Is power supply a separate board? That would be unusual.

Meanwhile, money spend on the power brick also would not be wasted
had you used the meter and one minute to make those measurements.
Just another exmaple of why fixing things only based in speculation is
money wasted.

Have you ever actually worked on a laptop computer? It's no where
as simple as you make it out to be.

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