Laptop Rescue
“It’s too old”: is it, really, though?
Issues
The Dell 9360 is out of support, and I am seeing some rumblings in the event log about NVME and the like. Now, last time the battery was trashed, again the computer was behaving “oddly”. In that case the Dell warranty covered a full motherboard and battery replacement, but it was the battery that was the issue.
The battery, however is clearly completely trashed, so let’s start with replacing that. It worked so well last time.
Let’s Do This
Dell do not seem to sell the replacement part, so I had to look it up. Finding it and obtaining it was not too troublesome, apart from a little supply chain wait.
Following:
The battery came with instructions recommending a full discharge to twice to avoid issues with incorrect capacity reporting , which I did, but frankly it seems great so far.