Yes it can and from first hand experience can cause the keyboard to act funny.
-----Original Message----- >From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 30, 2007 5:27 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [H] Bad battery in laptop causing lockups > >I appear to have a laptop that locks up when the battery (which >appears to be refusing to charge up) is in the machine. If I remove >the battery, the laptop comes back to life, and if I boot without the >battery installed, there's no lockup at all.) Is it possible a bad >battery could do this? > >T > Mark Dodge
