Nothing does feel loose to me, but I found the charging issue (w/o battery) is weird but consistent: the OEM charger stopped working, but a 3rd party one does work consistently. I’m not sure what to make of both the OEM charger and the battery breaking simultaneously given that the OEM charger was not involved in the laptop dropping, but perhaps the charging port shifted in a way imperceptible to me. Either way, I’ve ordered a new battery, and I’ll try sticking with that and the 3rd party charger from now on. Thanks for the help!

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Thanks for the warning!

What I meant by that is the plastic piece sticking out on the motherboard side of the connection. I should have looked up a picture of the connection first to see that it’s normally there; I don’t know much about this and assumed it came off from the battery haha.

So if the motherboard side looks alright, then does replacing the battery seem like the right fix to you? It seems like there’s a chance something else is wrong besides the battery, though, because I experienced the computer being somewhat finicky about charging even with the battery removed, but maybe it’s nothing…