Greetings Daryl!

 HG>> As long as the battery is a button cell you can obtain one from a

 DS>   It's not a button cell...it's more of a rectangular paperweight, as
 DS> it were.

Even so, they're made up of button cells. Although I suspect that yours
may not be servicable and has to be replaced. Do you have a battery model
number, as in CS-DED500.

That's the model number of one battery that services several Dell laptops
- D500, D505, D520, D600 and D610, which are pretty old laptops. I have a
D500 Dell Laptop and a spare battery that has been charged only once.
Trouble is that they're $60-70 bux these days, but still available.

http://www.batterybay.net/product-p/dell-cs-ded500.htm


    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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