I am on Windows 7. When I am in-game, my LED light on my AC charger turns green as if it was fully charged. I look at the taskbar and it shows the plugged in icon but when I hover over the power meter it says "plugged in, not charging".
what brand and model is your laptop also how old is it?
2001 15in MacBook Pro bootcamped with Windows7 64bit
I actually spoke to a Genius at the Apple Store and they said it is something with the drivers and hopefully new drivers will be out soon that will stop this from happening.
it will automatically stop charging if its not getting enough extra power to charge from. Running some games that are pushing the machine hard will take so much power, that it doesn't have spare power to recharge the battery.
This is because Apple uses bare minimum lower power AC adapters... at 85 watts, where most for the same size will use like 100 - 130 watt adapters. If your machine is pulling all 85 watts just to run at the time, it doesn't have enough power to charge.
it will automatically stop charging if its not getting enough extra power to charge from. Running some games that are pushing the machine hard will take so much power, that it doesn't have spare power to recharge the battery.
This is because Apple uses bare minimum lower power AC adapters... at 85 watts, where most for the same size will use like 100 - 130 watt adapters. If your machine is pulling all 85 watts just to run at the time, it doesn't have enough power to charge.
Awesome answer! Will this hurt the computer at all?
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2001 15in MacBook Pro bootcamped with Windows7 64bit
I actually spoke to a Genius at the Apple Store and they said it is something with the drivers and hopefully new drivers will be out soon that will stop this from happening.
This is because Apple uses bare minimum lower power AC adapters... at 85 watts, where most for the same size will use like 100 - 130 watt adapters. If your machine is pulling all 85 watts just to run at the time, it doesn't have enough power to charge.
Awesome answer! Will this hurt the computer at all?
not a bit... just means if you need to charge the battery quickly, you need to not do anything strenuous on the machine.