I looked down at the powerstrip it was plugged into - sure enough, the AC brick was loose, and it was actually unplugged. When I got home, I plugged it in, booted it up, got up to do some chores, and when I return-it says it's at 87% battery and not plugged in. Didn't pay attention to the charge, assuming it was still in its state of being, well, broken. No luck insofar as getting anything to work.Ģ) Last monday I went out for a little while, used my laptop while out. Thanks for your input, and sorry for the delayed response - been a weird, busy few days.ġ) Got the new AC adapter. I just figured i'd get some second opinions/suggestions before I do anything else. I know most likely I need to get the battery replaced, but am trying to avoid it, since this is my main work computer and sending it in to have someone deal with the sealed battery would be a huge inconvenience. I've ordered a new one both because I need it regardless, and because i'm desperately hopeful that maybe, just maybe, that's the problem. Undoubtedly can't be good.Īlso, my AC adapter, while it's currently powering my laptop just fine, has exposed wires on each end. I installed HWmonitor and took a look at how my battery's doing: it's putting out upwards of 16v, but the wear is at 92%, which. When it does, the computer recognizes it as '0%, plugged in, charging'.

When I attempted to do a reset, the battery LED would light up amber, switch to green briefly, back to amber-and then go out again.Īt this current point in time, it's blinking amber about once a minute. I have gone into the battery power settings, nothing there that could potentially screw things up.Īt one point earlier today, I booted up my computer to discover that it said the battery was at 97% power, plugged in, not charging. I'm not a computer whiz here, and when it's telling me no, i'm not gonna poke at it more. I have not messed with updating BIOS yet - I tried to flash it, but it straight-up said I couldn't. I saw solutions suggesting uninstalling/reinstalling the ACPI drivers, and tried that. The best i've gotten out of this is the LED blinking amber/staying solid amber for maybe a minute. I tried several variations of it without removing the battery, but to no avail. Several suggested doing a full reset, which I couldn't do, as I cannot remove the battery for it-not to mention that the moment that I unplug my laptop, it dies. My first thought was, fantastic, I probably need a new battery-and that's when I realized that I completely overlooked how this model of laptop has a sealed battery. I noticed that the battery icon in windows was empty, and when moused over, reads '0%, plugged in, not charging'. As of two days ago, out of the blue, its battery seems to have stopped working.

I'm currently using an ASUS notebook model X550ZA.

Asus sonicmaster battery not charging