Power cord or hardware

When I plug my power cord in, it charges, but the screen blinks brighter and then duller.  The electric charge goes on and off.  and off.  The light on the bar at the bottom shows the battery and then the plug that it is charging on and off.

I REALLY wish HP would recall this power cord.
The power cord for my HP pavilion dv6700 has not worked properly since the day I bought it, I have the wiggle the cord around to get the blue light to turn on, same as many other owners of this and similar HP Pavilion notebooks. I used to have to keep the cord taped to hold it in the right spot so that it would charge, which is really pathetic. In the past week, it will not recognize the charger at all. Since so many others have had the same issue, I believe the charger is defective. This model is on the recall list for battery issues, but the barcode on my battery was not on the list of recalls. I've read so many other people have replaced the power cord numerous times which works only for a short period of time, so I really don't feel like investing in a new charger only to have it stop working in 2 months. I'm at a total loss of what to do.

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