Problem with the laptop in my sig. It's a bit over a year old, battery was working like new till yesterday. I noticed after plugging it in that night that it wasn't charging. Clicked the power icon in the tray and got the status message, "Plugged in, not charging."

Googled it and tried the listed solutions: delete the Control Method Battery driver and reboot, various permutations of removing the battery and unplugging the system for several hours, and that plus deleting the CMB driver.

The computer shuts off instantly when I unplug the AC power but runs fine with it so I don't think the power adapter is the problem. The battery was fine until yesterday and in Googling the problem I didn't see any mention of it being related to dead batteries so I doubt if that's it.

I'll be throwing in a spare hard drive with a fresh install of Win7 to see if that fixes it whenever I find the time. That would pretty much eliminate the possibility that it's a software problem since this system ran fine for the last year with a variety of Windows installs and hard drives.

Any other ideas? The warranty ran out a couple months ago and I assume any contracted repair work will be close to the $500 I paid for this machine.