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Oli4 · 02-25-2008, 12:02 PM

Hello everyone,

I have an Acer Aspire 5601 for 1½ year now. For one year it has worked great. After the first year the battery life-time got shorter, from 1½ hour to 25 minutes (in power saving mode). It isn't fun, but I can live with it.

But then, from one day to another, I booted my laptop with my battery in it, and plugged on AC, my keyboard and touchpad don't work. First I thought of was a virus or something that came trough my 'defences'. So after scanning and all, i didn't find anything, but still having the problem. So I formatted my laptop and reinstalled Windows XP, to make sure there is no virus or trojan or whatever.
Still no change.

I found out that if my battery is connected to my laptop (just the standart battery) the keyboard and touchpad don't work. Everything is running very slow also. This is when I'm running on battery only and when I'm running on battery and AC.
Running on just AC, so no battery in my laptop, everything works just fine.

I have searched with google about this problem, but I haven't seen it. Is there anyone who can help me with this problem.

Thanks in advance.

02-25-2008, 12:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
Oli4 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Windows XP SP2	Acer Aspire: Keyboard and touchpad failure when running on battery Hello everyone, I have an Acer Aspire 5601 for 1½ year now. For one year it has worked great. After the first year the battery life-time got shorter, from 1½ hour to 25 minutes (in power saving mode). It isn't fun, but I can live with it. But then, from one day to another, I booted my laptop with my battery in it, and plugged on AC, my keyboard and touchpad don't work. First I thought of was a virus or something that came trough my 'defences'. So after scanning and all, i didn't find anything, but still having the problem. So I formatted my laptop and reinstalled Windows XP, to make sure there is no virus or trojan or whatever. Still no change. I found out that if my battery is connected to my laptop (just the standart battery) the keyboard and touchpad don't work. Everything is running very slow also. This is when I'm running on battery only and when I'm running on battery and AC. Running on just AC, so no battery in my laptop, everything works just fine. I have searched with google about this problem, but I haven't seen it. Is there anyone who can help me with this problem. Thanks in advance.