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[LUG] I think my laptop battery is dead



Working away fine, just finished with apt-get upgrade, browsing Debian bug 
tracking with Lynx, editing makefiles and DocBooks in Vi and browsing email 
in mutt (couldn't be bothered to load X) - all in all a successful session 
with 6 tty's in use.

Decided to relocate upstairs to have a more comfy chair. Great. Unplug the 
ethernet cable, fine, unplug the mains cable from the laptop - DIE!

The damn thing has been plugged in and running for 2 hours from mains, unplug 
the mains for 2 seconds and it just powers off! No low-power warnings, the 
recharge light had been on when plugged in, everything looked fine!

Bugger!!

I've now got 2 weeks to get a new battery before the extended warranty runs 
out!

hehehehe. Just for once, an electrical device has broken down two weeks BEFORE 
the end of the warranty, not 2 weeks after it.

:-))))

Still doesn't cover the cost of the extended warranty though.

:-(((
boohoo.

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Neil Williams
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