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

In alt.comp.hardware, 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**, 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). 

Reading in the hardward group so I don't see all the replies. 

Bought a new battery.  Seems fine now.  Thanks for telling me the hard
truth. 

None of the batteries for sale were as big as the original, 15 or 30%
smaller, but that's the way it goes. 



>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.