Dafydd.
Hello all,
I have recently been trying to get my girlfriend's Dell N5110 back into working order. I am not particularly experienced in this sort of thing but everything was going well until it came to fixing the battery issues.
In summary, the battery didn't seem to be working at all. The laptop would work when the charger was in but it would say 'plugged in, not charging'. My girlfriend intends to use this on the train/for work so needs it to be portable. So I purchased a new battery thinking this would solve it. The battery arrived the other day and I plugged it in and started charging it. A couple of hours later I turned on the laptop and the batter was at 44% (plugged in, not charging). I thought this was a bad sign and sure enough, when I took the charger out, the battery slowly went down to 0%. So now I have two drained batteries (probably both functional), but for some reason can't charge either of them.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem is and how to go about fixing it? I can provide more spec and details if necessary, but I doubt it will be for such a broad problem.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

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