>Hi,
>
>We had a power outage today. Maybe it is a coincidental, maybe not, but now when I turn on my notebook, and hover the mouse over the battery, it says "8% available. plugged in, not charging."
>I checked that the power cable is connected.
>I clicked on the battery icon and it shows that the battery health is Excellent.
>I turned the notebook on and off a couple of times.
>I took the battery out and put it in.
>None of the above resolves the issue. If I remember correctly, before this outage, the battery was about 70% charged.
>
>What else can I try?
>
>TIA

- Have you tried plugging the laptop charger into a different wall socket? Perhaps a breaker tripped and there's no power coming out of the socket.
- The power brick (i.e. the laptop charger) may have failed -- i.e. either within the "brick" itself, or the power cable (the latter could happen depending on how you've been handling it when packing/unpacking it -- you could ruin the cabling by introducing sharp bends on the cable or applying too much tension).
- charging circuit within the laptop may have gone bad