Question Is there a way of making my Laptop (Dell G3) stop searching for my battery (It isn't working)?

Nov 13, 2023
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Hey. So like a year ago I got some water on my Dell g3 and the battery got <Mod Edit> up (also the keyboard). I can't spend on a battery right now because I have to import it from another country and it's kinda expensive. So I unplugged the battery and I'm using the laptop plugged in all the time. The thing is somtimes I get stutters because imo the laptop is trying to find the battery. It must be a built in mechanism for managing the power plans or something. When I open the power manager at first I always get these stutters and theres a message saying waiting for battery connection. Then I get stutters every now and then but it's just a few secs.

So, any one had any idea what I could do to make my laptop work without using the battery?. Like disabling it completely or something. When I turn on the laptop I already put the laptop into the high performance power plan, but even then I have stutters.
 
it might be shuttering because it need more power from the battery.
or might not have anything to do with battery.

cpu/gpu temp and usage?
ram/ssd usage?
Hey thx for answering.

Ok it might be that. Idk. But I'm pretty sure it's the battery because the stuttering gets worse when I open the power manager. Then the device is pretty unusable for some seconds. Then when I change power plans too.

When I get home I'll share the results for what you're asking.
 
it might be shuttering because it need more power from the battery.
or might not have anything to do with battery.

cpu/gpu temp and usage?
ram/ssd usage?
Hey. So, I run some diagnostics and upload them here to show that the hardware seems to be working fine. The 1st two pictures show the app SupportAssist from Dell. I run the Scan Hardware option. If something were to be working badly then it should appear in red in the 2nd picture. But it just shows the last time I run a test becasue apparently there's no issue. Then the 3rd picture shows that I run the Windows Memory Diagnostic, that tests the ram. It says there's no issue there either. Lastly, the video I uploaded there is to show the stuttering. I did what I described earlier in the thread. Opened the power manager and then if you look at the cursor you should see how it isn't moving smoothly. Also the msg displayed that says waiting for battery connection. I sped the video to x1.5 but I think you should be able to see what I'm saying. It usually stutters more than that I think. Because the laptop usually starts with the balanced power plan and with the balanced on the thermal settings. Now I restarted after doing the ram test and the profiles got saved as ultimate and ultra.

If you want me to run a particular diagnostic software you can tell me. I run those because they're what I have available atm. Windows has the performance monitor too. But I didn't know what info there is useful for you to see if the hardware is doing alright.

But yeah if you say that the problem may be that the laptop isn't getting enough energy because the battery doesn't work then I don't have much option but to buy a battery I guess.

EDIT: I added some more diagnostics from the task manager. There's no much activity because I wasn't doing anything but the tests.
 
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