Dell Vostro battery causing problems

After several days of chasing my tail trying to find out why this Dell Vostro 1000 is acting screwy I removed the battery and everything cleared up. Anyone know why the battery would cause the computer to go really slow and lock up?

 

This is quite a common issue relating to dell's and their batteries,some of the cells in the battery burn out and create a power shortage fault. the only fix is to either buy a new battery or simply remove and just run off the mains.

iain.t :major

 

Yes, I see that now. I've found several people who said they had the the same strange problems with other Dell models and batteries. I wish I had known that before I checked for Malware and hardware concerns before reloading Win XP. I ran the Dell Diagnostics and it claimed the battery was A Okay! Finally in desperation I pulled the battery and wa-la!

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

No problem, you would think that a big going concern like Dell would of resolved this issue with their battery supplier, cheap nasty components will always fail !!!! I found this...

http://www.batteries-man.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/6_29/fit_model/Vostro%201000/products_id/6021

Regards.

iain.t :major

 

Yes, it is a little startling to see such a massive amount of battery problems from such a well known computer company. Thanks for the replacement battery source, you've been very helpful.