Computer help : Dell Inspiron 1150

Does anyone in IDO land have a Dell Inspiron 1150, or a similar Dell with the same battery, in good working order? This model is approximately 4-5 years old.

I have one, but it does not charge the battery. We purchased an after-market battery, and the computer worked flawlessly until it ran down to 0% charge.

My fiance has a lot of pictures on the computer that we need to access in the next month. They will be used for our wedding.

My hope is that someone has a similar computer and would be willing to take the two batteries I have and charge them for me. I am hoping two 100% charged batteries will allow me enough time to transfer the pictures to a flash drive.

I have done some research, and it sounds like the service work needed to fix the laptop is not worth my $, since we have another laptop at home, and I would much rather put the $ toward a new model anyways.

If there is another option that is available to transfer files from a computer that is OFF, I would love to hear it.

Thanks,

Lars

It does not run with the AC adapter plugged in?

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It does not run with the AC adapter plugged in?

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Negative. The only way I was able to boot it up in the last year was with the after-market battery. It ran down to 0%, with the AC adapter plugged in.

I’ve confirmed it’s not the AC adapter, by using it on another Dell, a little newer model, with a different size battery.

Try removing the battery and then powering up with the AC cable plugged in. My Dell will not boot if the battery is 0% and plugged in, but will boot if the battery is removed and is plugged in to AC.

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Try removing the battery and then powering up with the AC cable plugged in. My Dell will not boot if the battery is 0% and plugged in, but will boot if the battery is removed and is plugged in to AC.

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x2 …on an older dell I had..

I guess you could pull the hard drive and see if you could dock in your other laptop… see if they have the same plug configuration…

Lars,

if you can’t get the machine to boot up, send me a pm, and i’ll give you instructions on how to take the hard drive out and “slave it” onto another machine to get the data off.

My wife’s Dell also became brain-dead with a dead battery in it. Like others have suggested, pull the battery out and run it off the AC adaptor. I was amazed at how a bad battery will affect the operation.
HRG

Sure easy and cheap, pull the hard drive, they sell connectors to hook it up to a normal computer, I think I spent nor more than $10 on one. You may have to figure out a way to jumper the drive so you can use it as a slave drive, but it works really nice, I did this on a older laptop that had a HD failing. Heck you can borrow my parts, except I’m in Lakeville.

Pretty sure this is what you need, I looked really quick the wife is on my case to get out the door. http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=906&sku=17705

Ahh hell if you stopped by I’d just help ya do it. Let me know…

This is a little more expensive than what Nick posted, but its nice to have around. ($20-30). I’ve used it a lot for different HDDs. Works for a laptop, or a regular hard drives.

Its a USB to IDE adapter. Send me a PM if you want to use it. (I had the exact same problem with an HP laptop).

I’ve tried all the combinations of battery/no battery/plugged in/not plugged in, etc.

You’ll be getting a PM Jon.

That said, do I need to pull the hard drive to use the IDE adapter. I’m not familar with IDE? I’ve dismantled the laptop a few times, so that’s not an issue. Maybe I’ll decide putting it back together is to much work when I’m finished, though.

Thanks,

Lars