Satellite P10 Power Problem

Satellite P10-317
*Symptoms*:
External DC LED remains on, but battery LED goes OFF (from green or orange) and laptop runs on battery only (Toshiba Power Management control panel says that there is external DC AND that the battery is discharging). Disconnecting and reconnecting external DC doesn't cure it; but power down into Hibernate and resume and the battery LED comes on again and it runs off the external DC. If no battery plugged in, laptop just dies. Unfortunately the problem is very intermittent. The battery is new and charges/discharges normally.
*Diagnosis* (provisional): the onboard DC regulator is dying
*Question*: does anyone have the circuit diagrams? (anyone else seen this problem & know what the cure is?)
Thanks,
Julian

Hello
As far as I know such diagram is part of Maintenance Manuals and it is not a public document. Because of that I am pretty skeptic that someone can help you with it. You can try to contact nearest authorized service provider. They have these documents and maybe they are ready to help you.
Make a call.

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