Problems with my System 76 Laptop.

[Michael Butash]

I'll second that, probably battery related.  Or overheating, install
psensor and check?

Not sure if they give spec for what batteries they use, ideally something
fairly generic, but you can probably find a replacement easy enough and
diy.  My xps15 started getting weird, then noticed I couldn't use the
trackpad locally on it because the battery was bulging and wanted to
explode.  Replacing it made all that go away, but being a dell meant easy
to come by replacements - not sure how standard an oem unit system76
uses...

Always the challenge with smaller companies if you have to go back to them
for parts vs. finding it on ebay or alibaba or local.

-mb


On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 8:12 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 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> 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 at lokegaonkar.in
>> lokegaonkar.in
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> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
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