I'm pretty sure your battery is on its last legs. If you want to work without an external monitor and without being tethered to the desk, you should buy a replacement battery. Do a search for "Acer Aspire 5740" on ebay and you should be able to find one quickly. > From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> > Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:02:16 -0800 > Subject: Re: electricity outage > > > From: Noelle <noelle> > > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:49:48 -0800 (PST) > > > > yep. but it took 30 minutes for laptop to wake up. maybe it had a hangover > > and wanted to sleep it off > > Oh. That's weird. It may be that the battery was flat out of juice and > need to juice up before it even considered getting out of bed. > > Good thing you didn't have many charts anyway. > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Robert wrote: > > > Did everything come back to life? > > > > > > Looks like most of the computers came up at about 10:50am.