Equium A300D-16C - Battery not detected after replacement

I have a Equium A300D-16C. The original battery was shot so I purchased a Genuine PA3727-1brs 12 cell battery. I have put it in the laptop it appears to charge it but in the corner it still says no battery detected even though its on charge. When I take out the charger it will say unknown remaining.
I have tried the usual tricks of going into device manager and uninstalling the apci compliant control and still it has not sorted it self out. I have also updated my bios to the most recent one. I just wanted to know what else could I do so I can see how much battery is left and if the laptop can recognise i.,

Hello
Is it an original Toshiba battery from an authorized service provider?
Usually the new battery should be detected after first start I would recommend charging the battery while notebook is turned off. Then start notebook with battery only and check if its recognized properly.

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My girlfriend has an Equium A300D-16C which has been having a few problems lately.
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The strange thing is whenever this happens the system does still boot normally as you can hear the Windows 7 start up sound.
I have been looking into this issue for quite some time now and I'm starting to run out of ideas.
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I have tried holding the power button with no power source to discharge the system but it doesn't help.
I have also noticed that if you hear it boot and close the lid, upon reopening the lid the display will come on but with the wrong resolution (1024x768) which just puzzles me even more.
Any ideas on what could be wrong? I would rather repair this than just buy a new one as its still a decent system apart from this problem.

It is always problematic to discuss about problems that happen from time to time. Ok in your case most of the time it doesn't work but when it works there is connection between display and mainboard.
On this virtual way we can just speculate what the problem can be. Maybe connection to the mainboard, maybe display controller, display cable, display connector. Who knows?
If there is no even backlight I presume display doesnt get the video signal at all. It must be something on mainboard side.
What you can do? You can contact nearest service and ask for help but if they will say that mainboard must be exchanged it will be pretty expensive. You can try to find similar model on ebay with broken display or some other hardware failure (not mainboard) and exchange the mainboard.
It is really not easy to say what can be done.

Equium A300D-16C - Switches itself off after 3 seconds

I have a Toshiba Equium A300D-16C that will not start up. When you switch it on it begins to start but within 3 seconds switches itself off before it even gets to any type of screen. It then automatically tries to switch on again, then repeats the same cycle of auto off, auto on over and over.
When you put your ear to the bottom of the laptop you can hear the system starting up then you get two very quiet beeps before it switches itself off. Does anyone know what the cause could be or if there is a fix or should i just accept that my laptop of just under two years has died and given up the ghost?
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> How much would i be looking at to replace cpu/motherboard (not beign a tech wizard in the slightest)
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I recently got a new battery PA3533U-1B RS/AS for my aged Satellite A 300d.
When I place the new battery in the laptop, unplugged, press power button, the red battery indicator flashes several times, no power.
When i plug in the mains to the laptop, the red battery indicator stays red as-though charging, once windows has loaded the battery shows as Not Detected.
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Hi Paolo,
Thanks for your reply. I have kept the battery on charge for 12 hours +, both the 2nd and 3rd battery I have received, and neither of them show as detected.
When the laptop is off, new battery in, ac in, red light stays on for about an hour then it continuously flashes. This happens with both. After charging it won't turn on until insert ac, then when windows loads, bat not detected.
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I will speak to the dealer again, I returned the 1st battery, once i reported 2nd one faulty, he sent me a 3rd. The dealer has really positive feedback and good comment, it's just baffling?!
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Equium A300D-16c battery has died

I purchased this laptop about 3 years ago and the battery has recently died. I tried to replace it with a non Toshiba battery that fitted the part number. This battery appeared not to work.
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Hi again
I replied earlier but for some reason it was not sent and I didnt find out until now.
Anyway what I meant was that he wanted me to use the new battery normally as in run the laptop off the battery without the ac adapter being attached. Even though the laptop would maintain that the battery was not there.
I have done this for a couple of hours before when I first got the battery and was trying to get the laptop to register its presence.
I am just worried that if I keep using the battery like that it would become a safety issue.
As the battery does work on its own and runs the computer fine its just that the laptop says there is no battery.

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Equium A300D-16C - Keeps turning off after 5 minutes

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> but is there anything extra I should do?
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New battery isn't detected on Equium A300D-16C

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> Now when i take the mains power out, the computer cuts out and shuts off within minutes without it being able to be turned back on
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Equium A300D-16C. not booting after shutdown.

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Equium A300D-16C turns on but the screen shows nothing/stays black

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Hello
> I tried to connect my laptop to my PC's monitor using HDMI cable but no success... Laptop turned on but my pc's monitor was showing nothing.
Its very good that you have this test with an external monitor because so you could make sure its not related to internal monitor and its working properly.
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Equium A300D-16C - Windows has failed to start

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Ah! //Slaps head and goes to hide under a rock// :-D I guess that'd be the one on the front that obviously rests against my slightly rounded middle...? (I am in shape - round's a shape! ;-))
It never even occurred to me that there'd be a dial somewhere! Duh!
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//crawls under rock//
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