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Z71 V Battery Replacement

post #1 of 6
6/8/07 at 9:15pm
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Hey guys
whats the best place to buy a new battery for Z71V. Mine is dead completely, does not charge more than 3% ;-(
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post #2 of 6
6/8/07 at 10:22pm
try a google search- just about everywhere is out of them. Maybe if enough people call Asus, they'll ship more, but they're in high demand and from what I can tell, there haven't been any new shipments for a couple months at least. As an alternative option, you could try having your battery cells replaced by these folks: www.batteryrefill.com

I tried it, and the battery seems to be working fine now, although it took a little extra force to snap it into place, as it's a little wider after they broke open the casing and glued it back together again.
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post #3 of 6
6/11/07 at 5:20pm
Asus stop making battery replacement for them?! Man Asus sucks..
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post #4 of 6
6/11/07 at 6:00pm
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Originally Posted by smilepak View Post
Asus stop making battery replacement for them?! Man Asus sucks..
Well, I don't know that Asus stopped making batteries for them. I just know that just about everywhere is out of them, including Asus (at least they're "not in stock" on the e-store), and since people have been getting replies like "in a couple weeks" for a couple months now... And technically, Asus doesn't even make the batteries themselves- I think it's Samsung. I hope they ship a lot more in to the US, 'cause if they don't, there will be a lot of disappointed customers.
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post #5 of 6
6/11/07 at 8:36pm
I'm already disappointed of the fact they won't release Vista drivers for the Z71 ahahah

I was thinking of taking apart the Z71, and move the components over to my T43 I have laying around. But sadly the video card sucks on the T43..can't play much game...
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post #6 of 6
6/12/07 at 1:25am
Im not familiar with the business of laptops, but isn't NORMAL that they'd stop producing batteries for a 2+ years old laptop? They continued quite long after the model was discontinued I'd say.

What Im going to do with mine is simply replace the cells. If you are careful enough when opening the casing, and buying exact replicas, you'd save quite a bundle and be able to do it over and over and over and over and over until your laptop is WAY WAY WAY obsolete


Oh and Vista drivers for the Z71v..... what do you mean? the ATK drivers for the FN functions? I cant think of other drives required specific to the Z71v. Motherboard is default, screen is plug-n-play, graphic card is Nvidia. So ya... what's the driver issue?
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