[Leaplist] Thanks Fred and Bruce

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

Big thank you to Fred and Bruce, who brought up the possibility that my Acer 
laptop's intermittent failure to start might have been caused by an 
intermittently bad charging system. I had (perhaps mistakenly) assumed the 
charging system had been ruled out because it was plugged in and sometimes 
booted.

It looks to me like at the very least the battery is getting bad. Fully 
charged it appears to have only a few minutes of power (I'll test this soon). 
Bruce brought up the fact that I could do something in the BIOS to cycle the 
battery -- I'll have to find out what that something is.

Meanwhile, as corrective maintenance, I used electronics lubricant on the AC 
adapter plug that plugs into the laptop in order to ensure a good connection. 
If the intermittent was the connection between plug and jack, the electronic 
lubricant will fix it. Indeed, now the plug plugs in with a "snap" you can 
feel.

Thanks again guys!

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/