The issue: A couple of weeks ago my wall charger wouldn't do anything and then started to making a high pitched whine before coming on. I thought nothing of it since all I did was unplug it and plugged it into another outlet. Then, last night I shutdown my laptop (on the charger @ 100%) and this afternoon I started it up (on the battery). Almost immediately after logging on, it shuts down, so I push the power button and logon again. The low battery charge warning pops up saying I've got 3% charge left :emotion-40:. Thinking I may have shut the lid before it completely shutdown (pretty sure I didn't since I wound up all the cords first), I plug the wall charger in. It starts charging for a couple of minutes and stops at 7%, no warnings of course. I reboot after 30 minutes and go into the BIOS to see what's going on and find the same. I remove the charger plug several times, see that it registers, and observe that the battery health screen says that it's charging normally and the battery info screen says "Idle" @ 8% charged. I load up Vista again and now have it at 8% charge (hovers around 7-8%) and not charging. Sometimes I can wiggle and twist the connector in the socket and it will start charging for a second or more then stop again, the same in the BIOS. more