Battery from Equium L20 does not charge

I have a Equium L20 which battery will not charge. The Windows Powermanagment says it is charging but the percentage never increases, I have tried different batteries with the same symptom as result.
The battery LED is glowing orange as if its charging but not matter how long I leave it on the charge, percentage does not change. Windows detects the battery as fine with all the correct info.. I have tried to remove the battery but to no avail. .
Is this a software or a hardware issue?
Edited by: ADMIN on 07-Jun-2008 08:12

I have the same problem as you and have just posted a question on the forum about it.
Here is my story:
I have a TOSHIBA L20-197 laptop.
The battery will not accept any charge.
The computer says that the battery status is: 'CHARGING 0%' but it isn't charging at all so I have to run the computer off the mains.
The battery light, which should show ORANGE, and then GREEN when the battery if fully charged, is showing GREEN all the time.
The power lead got broken at the end where it goes into the computer and it's possible that I may have caused a short while fixing it.
Maybe there is a fuse somewhere that I've managed to blow?
I have now purchased a new battery and it still won't work so it's not the battery that is at fault.
HELP!!!!!!!!!

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Hi,
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hi Chernandez51,
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