Hi, I own an Envy 15 1100cto refurb which stopped charging after ~1 year of use. It originally came with a 65w ac adapter, but after reading the users guide, i learned that the i7 ver. needs a 120w ac adapter, so i bought a LiteOn generic adapter which worked perfectly out of the box. A year later, my battery was about to end so I went and plugged the laptop, but it didn't start charging (no amber nor white light, just nothing). Took the laptop and the adapter to some pc service and they said the adapter's low voltage wire was cut and fixed it. The lappy went back to life for a week or so. Again,...
Why dont you try using this modded bios that deactivates the Hyperthreading feature (when enabled, this gets the CPU warmer and kills battery faster). You won't notice any performance impact, and your Envy will run cooler.
Hi, very good information in this thread. Before starting a new one, I'd like to ask what do you think about this. I own an Envy 15 1100cto refurb which stopped charging after ~1 year of use. It originally came with a 65w ac adapter, but after reading the users guide, i learned that the i7 ver needs a 120w ac adapter, so i bought a LiteOn generic adapter which worked perfectly out of the box. A year later, my battery was about to end so I went and plugged the laptop, but it didn't start charging (no amber nor white light, just nothing). Took...
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