Have you changed your OS or APM lately? I had an Acer that worked great with Win95. I upgraded to Win98 and the _next day_ I started to experience symptons similar to what you described (runs for 5 minutes - then the APM shuts the computer down). I never did solve the problem (tried to uninstall 98, with no luck) - fortunately the computer was no longer needed for mobile use.
M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote: > Can anyone help me determine if a laptop battery is dead? > > Symptoms: > > 1. Laptop runs no longer than 5 minutes without AC > 2. cat /proc/apm gives this: 1.14 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ? > 3. apm -v gives this : > APM BIOS 1.2 (kernel driver 1.14) > AC on-line, no system battery > 4. battery is installed > 5. charging light goes out pretty quickly after being reinstalled ********************************* Chris Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************
