This could be the problem. acpi says `Battery 0: Charging, 82%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge.` I'll try this and update. On 7/29/21 8:41 PM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > you can check the bios and see if there is a setting to disable the > battery. what can happen if the battery is old enough or just that bad > the laptop will try to trickle charge it and fail because of an error. > the shutdown is a protective measure. > > you can also open the bottom and track down the battery plug and > disconnect it if the above is not an option. > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 7:34 AM Dhruva Lokegaonkar via PLUG-discuss > > wrote: > > Hey, > > My galago pro is acting weird. It runs for a few minutes, then the > power led starts blinking orange, and then it shuts down. The > battery is pretty much dead. But it was working fine on AC power. > Any ideas what it could be? Its 2.5 years old. I'm in India right > now so I cannot set it to system 76 for repairs. > > I can prevent the shutdown by putting the laptop to sleep and waking > it up buy i have to keep doing it every other minute as the orange > light start blinking within 2 min. > > -- > > "Jiska Pata Nahi Hota, Uska Pata Nahi Chalta" > Shanti > dhruva@lokegaonkar.in > lokegaonkar.in > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "Jiska Pata Nahi Hota, Uska Pata Nahi Chalta" Shanti dhruva@lokegaonkar.in lokegaonkar.in