Well, I guess the time has come. The Acer Aspire One, despite my upgrading of the BIOS , doesn't want to charge its battery anymore. So it is slowly just losing its charge, and will die. And that's OK, since I have another Acer laptop that I bought back in June when my desktop computer died. I got a lot of use out of the Acer Aspire One. And honestly, how many computers does a boy need? But I will try to make sure that I've backed up everything, then reformat the internal drive before I recycle it. One can't be too careful.