Hello Owain, Yep, that sounds like a borked battery. I find that lappy batteries can start giving problems almost from the get-go, but a life-span from around 18-24 months seems to be the norm. It's inconvenient to say the least, but luckily Eee batteries are readily available. A quick look on Amazon seems like depending on your model, a battery should cost between £26-£34 (or around that). I'm sure that you can most probably find cheaper "unbranded" batteries elsewhere, bit then again I fully believe that you get what you pay for in this case... :-)
On Tue, December 6, 2011 08:02, Owain Clarke wrote: > I wonder if anyone would mind commenting on a problem? I noticed > that recently my Asus Eee has only been getting up to about 65% of > charge, and I assumed this is a battery problem (I think it's about > 18 months old). But then I have noticed a couple of times, that > even with a reasonable amount of charge, if I unplug the mains > charger, the computer immediately switches off, so I wondered > whether there is a more general power problem, or whether that could > just be indicative of a naff battery. It also sometimes switches > off when it's suspended, even though the battery appears to have > quite a bit of charge left. -- Regards, Jan Henkins -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
