Here's one that has me stumped, perhaps some of you have come across this odd problem.
I have an old HP Pavilion P3-600 laptop Win2k), and an old Sotec manufactured Coppermine Celeron laptop (WinXP), each exhibiting the strange behavior of both the touchpad and keyboard stops accepting input momentarily when a 'new' battery is installed and 'charging'.
It cycles every few seconds. 2 seconds dead, 4 seconds fine.
Remove the 'new' battery and the laptop returns to normal input.
New is quoted because I can't verify their condition as neither appears to be charging. The seller claims they are new.
The HP's battery light goes from amber, to red. The old dead battery stayed amber, and didn't affect the inputs.
The Sotec's battery lights don't seem to light up at all. Old or new battery, the inputs go dead.
It seems like a M$ OS issue. ACPI problem? Inputs don't get buffered, just lost. Would a bad battery cause this? Or missing service or driver preventing charging as well as the input fault?
Stumped!
I have an old HP Pavilion P3-600 laptop Win2k), and an old Sotec manufactured Coppermine Celeron laptop (WinXP), each exhibiting the strange behavior of both the touchpad and keyboard stops accepting input momentarily when a 'new' battery is installed and 'charging'.
It cycles every few seconds. 2 seconds dead, 4 seconds fine.
Remove the 'new' battery and the laptop returns to normal input.
New is quoted because I can't verify their condition as neither appears to be charging. The seller claims they are new.
The HP's battery light goes from amber, to red. The old dead battery stayed amber, and didn't affect the inputs.
The Sotec's battery lights don't seem to light up at all. Old or new battery, the inputs go dead.
It seems like a M$ OS issue. ACPI problem? Inputs don't get buffered, just lost. Would a bad battery cause this? Or missing service or driver preventing charging as well as the input fault?
Stumped!
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