Re: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55 - Undetected Battery + Crashing under heavier load

So after a while i got to this again. Just writing to conclude this story

I measured SDA / SCL on battery connector when plugged it showed nothing. I found fitting used battery on local site simmilar to ebay so i just bought it. It came in about two weeks i plugged it in and it is working without and issue.

So the battery was dead possibly from faulty connector which wasnt making proper contact to GND or some ESD event as mentioned above.

I was using notebook...

Re: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55 - Undetected Battery + Crashing under heavier load

Hi so i finally found time to look at it. Thanks for the answers .
Yes, first DCIN mosfet was shot. I ordered new one, changed it, tried powering notebook on and sucsess, it worked.

Notebook is working correctly under heavy load and no longer turns off after few seconds.
Battery is no longer undetected battery light shines red BUT when i turned it on battery was showing 100% charge which is not correct because i remembered that i discharged it till 0% last time notebook...

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55
Board: Compal LA-J891P rev.1.0B

Crashing under heavier load
Battery not detected
Working only with AC adapter plugged in

What happened:
Notebook crashed under load randomly. After several crashes throughout the week (after each crash it got worse and worse meaning crashes were happening more often) i found out it works just fine not plugged in AC charger only powered by battery so i was using it that way until battery was drained to 5%. When i plugged AC charger in battery wasn't charging so i restarted the machine...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi Guys
my name is Alex im 23yo and i live in Slovakia (eastern europe).
I studied IT and electronics as my high school and i have some (not much) experience with electronics but i wasnt repairing more complex boards and devices and it was something i always wanted to learn.

I have two laptops at home, one is Lenovo Legion 5 and Acer Nitro 5 and good old rusty desktop with 12years on the clock but it is working still fine - kept usable and snappy by a magic of ssd

Have a nice day...