Can a battery do that ?!

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Rouxenator

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A month ago my wife complained that her Acer Aspire 3050 with 2.5GB RAM was so slow she could not even type on it. When I tried it I found the exact same thing, it did not respond to keystrokes unless you hold them down for 5 seconds at a time and the mouse was complete unusable.

I reloaded windows, tried different version of windows (from Windows7 BETA 64bit right down to XP SP3) but it was always the same - the keyboard and mouse was completely stuffed. Eventually we bought a new HP laptop just so that she can continue with her work.

When I started playing around with the busted Acer I figured out it was working fine with external keyboards and mice but this sort of defeated the purpose of a laptop. After a few more days of cursing and getting aggressive with the laptop I unclipped the battery "by accident" and the internal keyboard and mouse was fine.

So that was all that had the laptop acting like it was dodged up. I ordered a replacement battery from China via eBay (cost me R400) and it arrived two days ago. Needless to say the laptop is working perfectly with the new battery and it is a good battery since it temperature stays more or less the same under charge and when used under load.

I am still puzzled about how a battery can cause your keyboard and mouse to become completely useless. I know they share the LPC bus and probably the same SuperIO controller but what can a battery do to make that work so badly?
 
Hmm. Maybe the battery wasn't supplying enough power?
Really odd issue though. Would have had me going :p
 
I'm just happy it works now. My guess is that some sort of logic inside the battery probably flooded the SMbus with a lot of crap and it had no time to listen to the keyboard and mouse.

Acer won't be of any help, they'll probably teflon me to the battery maker. Luckily eBay sells them for cheap :p

If anyone ever has a laptop that start acting all weird - first try running it without the battery before you buy a new laptop.
 
I had the same problem once, I dropped a laptop and it started playing up. I stripped it and connected it without the battery, worked fine. Battery in, caused problems....
 
Strange how a battery can do that. What sort of logic to they put into these batteries thesedays ?
 
There is a circuit that determines how much longer your battery will last (in terms of number of chargers), perhaps that could play up??
 
I guess it is that circuit that probably went flakey and swamped the SuperIO/SMbus with nonsense causing it to become unavailable for other tasks.

LOL - perhaps the old battery needs a "firmware upgrade" :p
 
Rouxenator said:
I guess it is that circuit that probably went flakey and swamped the SuperIO/SMbus with nonsense causing it to become unavailable for other tasks.

LOL - perhaps the old battery needs a "firmware upgrade" :p
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Possible - I've had to do battery firmware updates before.
 
bwana said:
Possible - I've had to do battery firmware updates before.
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Thanks, I just checked but could not find anything relating to the batteries of the Aspire 3050.

Guess I'll make a big fire somewhere on our farm where there is nothing valuable closeby and then disregard the "DO NOT DISPOSE OF IN FIRE" warning on the old battery :cool:

Should be a good one for youtube...
 
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