Laptop battery going flat when shutdown

[Mark Greenwood]

On Thursday 08 Jul 2010 21:56:37 Ralph Puncher wrote:
> (K)Ubuntu has not shut down my Acer Aspire 1410 laptop since 9.10. I have to manually shutdown each time. If I don't the battery is dead within 24 hours.

Interesting. What do you mean by "manually shutdown"?

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> On 2010-07-08, at 4:31 PM, "Marcelo Magno T. Sales" <mmtsales at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Em Quinta-feira 08 Julho 2010, Mark Greenwood escreveu:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> Anybody else noticed their laptop battery going flat when they have
> >> shut down? It's as if it isn't properly shutting down at all.
> >> 
> >> I'm running Lucid on a Sony VAIO. I usually don't disconnect it from
> >> mains power, but last night I shut the laptop down, unplugged the
> >> mains adaptor and left the laptop on a shelf. When I came to it this
> >> morning the battery was totally flat.
> >> 
> >> I thought it might be just my Sony, but I tried it with my Acer
> >> Aspire One (running Ubuntu Lucid Netbook Edition) and that did the
> >> same thing. I'm not yet ready to accept the "amazing
> >> battery-draining shelf" explanation :-)
> >> 
> >> Mark
> > 
> > I have two VAIOs and I know they drain battery even when shut down, but 
> > not as fast as you are experiencing. Mine drain about 10% of the battery 
> > power each day, so batteries go flat after about 11-12 days. It seems it 
> > is a known problem with VAIOs, at least I found several other people 
> > with this problem on the net. I have to remove the batteries if I'm not 
> > going to use the VAIOs for a few days.

This doesn't seem to be my problem, my battery was completely flat to the point where the laptop wouldn't even switch on.

Thanks,

Mark


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