On 2022-07-14 03:16:26 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|> I opened the laptop the other day to do some cleaning since it's started |> increasingly making fan noise having been entirely silent for two and a |> half years prior. Fan and interior was all perfectly clean. Applied some |> fresh thermal grease to the CPU/heatsink. Still makes increasing fan |> noise. In putting it back together it requires a bit of squeezing tight |> to put the screws in, because it seems to me that the battery has puffed |> up to some degree. I didn't try removing it or any of the surrounding |> insulating material to inspect it in detail. I don't recall it being |> like that the only other time I opened it two or three years ago but I |> didn't pay too much attention back then. Makes me wonder if that's a |> common thing or whether my continual charging could be causing it to |> enlarge, which would be worrying. Unfortunately, unlike my two previous |> laptops which had detachable batteries, this one's removable but only by |> taking the device apart. Because if I could remove it easily I would, |> and just run on AC power. |> |> gumb | |Dunno. 2yrs is too soon for degradation in modern laptop. | |-- |Cheers / Saludos, | | Carlos E. R. | | (from openSUSE 15.3 (Legolas))
All of your arguments seem to assume a good battery, but this sounds to me like a defective battery. The swelling of the battery is significant, IMO. Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity