[Coco] Fedora Core 6 on a M305CRV Gateway laptop

[Stephen Castello]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:25:31 -0700, Kevin Diggs <kevdig at hypersurf.com>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>	Measured with a P3 international Kill A Watt meter. The 2775 was not 
>charging its battery. The A75 apparently can't run off the AC adapter 
>and charge the battery at the same time?!? Sometimes it will also switch 
>to the battery if it feels like it. When the battery dies it will switch 
>off. Even with the AC adapter connected and live?!? Its either sorta 
>broken.

Check the power socket, if the plug has a lot of play, it's broken.
Official fix is to replace motherboard.  Unofficial is to get a new
socket.  I've seen the sockets on ebay.  A broken power socket on a
Toshiba is a common problem.

Stephen
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