MSI GX623 power supply problem

Hello. About a year ago I bought the GX623. I just love this laptop, but few problems occured recently. When I turn on the notebook and it fully loads, the brightness keeps showing on and off like putting in or out the ac cable into the laptop(while the cable is put in the laptop and not even being touched). And the battery icon in the bottom right keeps turning into plugged in and then again into battery for a long time. This continues for about 10 mins. Then it switches to plugged in like it should be(and the brightness icon dissapears). The computer then works fine. Disconnecting and connecting the cable doesn't help during this madness. And touching the cable, moving it near the plug doesn't help. It doesn't seem to be the switch-plug problem. Also sometimes when I turn on the pc(with the cable plugged in), it doesn't keep turning into battery or plugged in versions, but just stays in the battery mode and the battery light turns red(the indicator shows that the battery is fully charged but will only last for 4 minutes). Maybe somebody had a similar problem and might now the solution? I am thinking that this is the AC adapter problem. Or maybe it's my software? Btw I'm using Windows 7 64 bit. Thank you for the help.

Not plugged: works just fine on battery mode.
Now I took out the battery, plugged in the cable without it and the computer works just fine. But I really don't get it. It seems that when my laptop is cold, like in the morning - it starts to do these things. Like today, when I came back from work. Now when it is hot, it has no problems(like when I restart the computer or turn it on again). The other day I tried to turn on the computer without the battery, just the cable plugged in and for the first time that day(when it was cold). It didn't turn on, the battery lights just kept blinking on and off like there was bad contact. With the battery and the cable it turns on in battery mode and only after sometime switches to plugged in mode(with all that switching from one mode to another all the time like I wrote earlier). Tomorrow morning I'm gonna try to turn it on when it's cold only with the wire(no battery). If it doesn't work - something is wrong with the AC adapter or the cpu inside... Also tomorrow I'm gonna get a similar MSI AC adapter from my cousin. If the notebook works fine with it - my AC adapter is bad. If not - cpu problem for sure.

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i also noticed that my D-bracket lights are always off. Even during startup. Do i have a bad board?
Could be, but is the D-Bracket fully seated in the connector on the board?
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Regards Arjan

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