Cannot use macbook without charging battery

I have a apple macbook and can only use it when it is charging. When I take the charger off, the macbook shuts down. It looks like that the internal adapter is not working anymore. It is annoying only being able to work with my macbook when connected with the charger. Does anyone have a suggestion?

I resolved it already by booting with cmd + s
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/
/sbin/mount -uw /
/var/db/.AppleSetupDone

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Brady_LS wrote:
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