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    Battery is dying?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by nindustrialny, Aug 3, 2011.

  1. nindustrialny

    nindustrialny Notebook Consultant

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    Screen flickering, hangin up etc.
    Are these the symptoms of battery failures?
     
    nindustrialny, Aug 3, 2011
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    TreeTops Ranch Notebook Deity

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    Take battery out and plug computer power brick to external power source like your wall and see it screen flickers. If it does then something else is going belly up. Probably the GPU.
     
    TreeTops Ranch, Aug 3, 2011
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