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My fren installed Linux Mint on my cheap LP laptop six months ago, it works fine. But since a few days ago, it's shutting down without warning at 70% battery level. Computer is one year old, I only use it casually. How do I run a battery test? I don't have HP Support Assistant downloaded. I have read that other people had same problem, even with replacement battery..

My fren installed Linux Mint on my cheap LP laptop six months ago, it works fine. But since a few days ago, it's shutting down without warning at 70% battery level. Computer is one year old, I only use it casually. How do I run a battery test? I don't have HP Support Assistant downloaded. I have read that other people had same problem, even with replacement battery..

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I've had odd issues with HP laptops, including power supply whine, fan noise, and just crap like bad solders on the GPU. It wouldn't surprise me if they had a line with either bad battery packs (that is, the charge controller or cells are defective.) Could also be how the charge controller in the battery is reporting things, or even how Linux is reading the charge controller.

Since it's a hard stop, it's probably something with how the battery interfaces to the machine, or the battery is just junk.

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It is a $300 machine, so I'm leaning towards 'crap'. I bought it for the cool wine-red color :(

--but I had a previous one for years that worked fine, except the hinges were broken, and I 'fixed' it with duct tape and clamps. Wish I had a pic, it was hilarious.

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HP laptops are very hit and miss. The current one I have is a i5 6th, it's been purring along since I got it. The one before lasted just out of warranty before a GPU Solder issue killed it, and the one before that had some major internal failure in the first 30 days and the vendor refunded me because they didn't have any more (they all died.)