Lenovo & Toshiba laps I've had both recommended leaving the battery in place. Protects it when power failure too when on ac. The Lenovo has a setting for 50% charge to prolong the life of the battery if on ac always. Replacement batteries are about 100 bucks ! laptop is only 4 months new Warrantied I would assume .. and what you describe matches my oldest Toshiba ... either the power circuit had confusion for some reason, or the power circuit has a problem. If it does it again I certainly would phone the support line. Toshiba told me to send mine in and I didn't thinking it was just one of those rare things that occasionally goof up... until it died completely - after the warrantee ended. Ps; The cmos battery according to Toshiba, would only gain charge with the battery in place too. This post was edited by mikie on Tue, Mar 26, 13 at 18:38

I used to take the battery out of my old toshiba and it lasted at least 4 yrs before I broke the laptop. I'd store it at slightly less than full charge when removed from the computer. New toshiba I replaced that broken laptop with the instructions say leave the battery inplace all the time as it only charges when its capacity is something like below 94% of charge. Its really rare that I see its charging light glowing. It's a year and a half old and still always shows and acts like it has full capacity as when new. I don't often use it on battery but when I do I try to let it run untill it warns me its low. The battery placement in the new laptop is located in a very cool to touch section of the laptop so heat certainly shouldn't be an issue degrading it by leaving it plugged in & the lith-ion type batteries do not self discharge and leak down as quickly as some types will. eBay usually has some new replacements at auction that if you inquire, usually they will have a date code that's about a year old but certainly less moneys.

It's a constant learning process for most every one. I just went through the printer installation and spend 2 hours wasting my time. It took the HP tech about 2 minutes before she told me it was a bad one. After all of the time spent trying the tech said I had two options, they would send me a replacement or I could take it back to the store. I ended up returning it and buying the cheapest HP printer I could find and it uses only 2 cartridges and prints in color or black ink only for only $69. This post was edited by EmmaR on Thu, May 2, 13 at 11:32

Lets see if we can see what's causing the blue screen Download WhoCrashed from the link below This program checks for any drivers which may have been causing your computer to crash.... Click on the file you just downloaded and run it. 1 Put a tick in Accept, then click on Next. 2 Put a tick in the Don't create a start menu folder then click Next. 3 Put a tick in Create a Desktop Icon. Then click on Install and make sure there is a tick in Launch Whocrashed before clicking Finish. 4 Click Analyze It will want to download the Debugger and install it Say Yes WhoCrashed will create report but you have to scroll down to see it. Copy and paste it into your next reply. Here is a link that might be useful: WhoCrashed