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    weird trouble with power supply / battery on aspire 3000

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kreiselläufer, Nov 25, 2010.

  1. kreiselläufer

    kreiselläufer Newbie

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    sure, i know, an aspire 3000 is nearly outdated after nearly permanent use, but i like it and had no trouble ever until like 2 weeks now
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    |system:
    | - mobile amd sempron 3000+
    | - 1,8 GHz, 448 RAM
    | - winXPpro sp2 no updates ever (and i really like it that way)

    the trouble is some weird:

    it started with external power supply not running right after activation of windows
    usually after some minutes this changed and it recharged battery and everything fine

    some later these minutes went more, until most times the external power supply didnt appear at all

    at all this time the battery was recarged immediately as soon as i changed to standby-mode

    and in last 2 days the external power supply SOMETIMES switched on without recharging the battery
    as soon as i closed all running progs it started recharging
    with one program it continued but starting a second prog it just went back on not recharging and everytime the comp had a little higher cpu-use it used the battery at exactly this time

    i have no clue if this is even hardware or software related
    i uninstalled all the new programs of the last month, checked registry wihout any result, reloaded all hardware drivers

    i am thinking of opening my dear laptop just to chek if anything went loose but i doubt that as i quite never moved it at all

    anybody any idea at all what might cause this? or *dream* a solution?

    thanks in advance for even reading this weird matter

    kreislläufer

    (my sys is running in german so i hope i gave the specific terms)
     
    kreiselläufer, Nov 25, 2010
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  2. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Can you test the notebook with another PSU with matching voltage/current properties?
     
    downloads, Nov 25, 2010
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  3. kreiselläufer

    kreiselläufer Newbie

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    unfortunately not as i dont know anybody with a similar psu '~'

    but i think the power supply functions absolutely fine as it charges quickly in standby-mode and if it happens to be giving its enery to my comp i can use all kind of consumpting progs without any flaw
     
    kreiselläufer, Nov 25, 2010
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  4. michael_recycled

    michael_recycled Notebook Deity

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    It might not have enough power to charge the battery and run the computer at the same time. Reasons for this behaviour could be blown capacitors or other evil things like that.

    Additionally (although unrelated), you might consider upgrading to a version of Windows XP that is supported by MS ;)

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Nov 25, 2010
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