Problems with my System 76 Laptop.

Dhruva Lokegaonkar dhruva at lokegaonkar.in
Thu Jul 29 08:18:55 MST 2021


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
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> 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.
> 
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