Quote - acadia,
sorry if i'm repeating something here, didn't read through all of the post's.

motherboards have a battery and a reset jumper thingy. i would encourage a trip to radio shack for the battery and try that first...you never know. might be the best $1.09 you ever spent.

No one has suggested a battery replacement. I didn't know that it had a battery. The only battery that I know of is the large one that allowed me to use it when it was unplugged.

Where in a laptop do I find this battery, and is it easy to replace? Meaning do I have to have a tech do it or is it something I can do myself?

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi