Re: Charging light on Acer laptop is red -- Plugged in.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:12:02 -0400, micky
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Charging light on Acer laptop is red -- Plugged in. 
>
>I was using my Acer Aspire E15 (several years old) with win10 Home,
>fullly updated**,

There were no updates available when I started on this problem, around
6PM, but by 10PM win update found 2024-01 Security update KB50344441,
which several times has failed to install. Other people in google have
also had trouble installing it, going back to Jan 14.   Could this
relate to my charging problem?  Posted for the sake of completeness. 

> when I suddently noticed that the Charging light was
>no longer blue but red, and the charge status icon in the systray said 
>0% available (plugged in). 
>
>It is set to hibernate when the battery is at 15 or 20%, so how did it
>get to 0% without hibernating.  Perhaps it's not really that low? 
>
>I ran the troubleshooter for Power.  3 tiny changes, probably udoing
>settings I wanted.  A google page said to run the troubleshooter for
>devices and something but neither was listed. 
>
>When it was a good time, I hibernated it and measured the voltage of the
>charger.  It was about 19v. 
>
>Google suggested Device Manager, Battery, disable and then enable all
>the items in battery.  I did that and when I went to *enable* the second
>one, the screen went blank.  Pressing the power button caused it to say
>Resuming Windows (a message I dont' think I've ever seen before) and
>indeed it quickly resumed where I'd been.   I don't think this paragraph
>helps, but I"m being complete. 
>
>Any ideas what the problerm and what to do about it? 
>
>**It did have a MS cumulative update 2 days ago, and one poster thought
>that a window update messed up his charging, but I doubt that's what it
>is.  OTOH, I had a MS update a couple years ago that totally disabled my
>computer, until I learned to back it out, so who knows?  
>
>I haven't moved the laptop in 6 weeks and I keep it charging all the
>time, with the battery normally at 100%.  But Nir Sofer's program,
>BatteryInfoView, says it's 0%.  How did it go, it seems, from 100 to 0%
>so quickly? Because the charging light is only blue when it's fully
>charged and it's amber or red other times.  It went, I'm 99% sure,
>straight from blue to red, 0%. 
>
>Any other newgroups still active that would know about this. I think the
>2nd and 3rd here are dormant.