Battery Died, now no lights/power or wont charge

Hi! I have a Thinkpad T43 with the ATI graphics card. It has worked greatup until a few days ago. I was running off of the battery. The battery needed to be charged, so I plugged in the laptop and noticed the battery light did not indicate charging, nor the power light come on.
I then shut down and tried to boot directly from the A/C adapter. No power lights were on, nor would not boot. I tried booting from the battery and I was able to boot, but the battery promptly died. I still could not get any power from the AC.
I thought the adapter was bad, so I bought a new adapter. I tried plugging in the new adapter, the battery charge light came on for a brief second, then went out and still no power lights or boot.
I tried the tip with pushing the power button for 10 seconds, 10 consec. times but to no avail.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

Hi Blair230,
Sounds like the AC adapter connector on the laptop where the adapter's plug is inserted has gone bad. Motherboard would need to be replaced or fixed if it turns out to be the case.
Hope it helps.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
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