Laptop battery

I have an HP factory charger, and it has an on/off switch on it.

Batteries Plus. Take it in and get a new one.

A lot of newer HP's the battery is not easily (meaning designed to be user replaced) replaced, You have to open the case. B+ may be able to to that for you. Easy if you know how (I do) but not so easy if you don't.

I had a piece of electronic toast to practice on by the way. Nice thing about Electronic toast is you can't accidently toast it. already done.

When my 12 year old laptop that still works well had battery issues I was shocked at the price of a new one... I bought instead three $10 chargers to keep around the house: one each in the living room, the kitchen and office.

Also check for a BIOS update. Our HP laptops needed an update to fix the charge issue, they would only charge to 50 percent while docked(plugged in).

Thanks, 2Oldman. I followed the tutorial, twice actually to make sure I was doing it right, and it's still not charging. Probably time for a new battery. Thanks to everyone who commented.

Yup -- both of the above will help -- more likely, a new battery in the future at some point.

We used to take an old style ink eraser (with a little grit in the rubber) and clean the contacts. This seemed to make things better.

Common problem. Turn off computer, pull battery, reinstall. You may have to do this a lot more from now on.

Google-plugged in not charging