Macbook shutdown when battery in place.

My macbook pro work great when connected to the power supply and no battery inserted. When battery is inserted and power supply connected it shuts down within minutes of restart. Help.

It might be helpful if you indicated the EXACT model/year MBP that you have.
Perform a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Open System Profiler>Power and post this from your MBP:
(make certain that the charger is connected)
Try to run an Apple hardware Test:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257
You can use the original installation disk that has the instructions on it. Note that an error free AHT is not drfinitive.
I suspect that there may be something wrong with your battery.
Ciao.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
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1. Shut down your MB
2. Have ONLY the battery in it.
3. Power your MB up & immediately take it into Safe Mode (after the startup chime, hold down one of the Shift keys until the login screens shows up. Let go of Shift. Log in. Let it finish booting. At the Desktop, do a few ordinary things on your MB (not all programs will function in SafeMode though).
4. Report back here whether your MB freezes on battery-only power while it's in Safe Mode.
Second, download & install the iStat Menu utility.
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Here's a screenshot of my own iStat, with the mouse arrow pointing at my MB's current battery temperature:
Also, need some answers to these Q's:
1. What model is your MB?
Apple.com: "How to identify MacBook models"
EveryMac.com: "Lookup Mac Specs By Serial Number, Order, Model & EMC Number, Model ID"
2. What version of OSX are you running in your MB?
3. Did the frequency of the battery-only freezup problem develp slowly over time, freezing only every once in a while until now your MB freezes quite often, or did the problem just show up overnite -- yesterday, fine; today, freezing with only the battery in it?
4. Did you do anything major as far as changes to your MB are concerned, or did anything happen to it? (dropped, keyboard spill, etc)
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5. If you were to start your Macbook up in the morning on battery only after it being shut down all night, and the MB is being used normally, how long in minutes does it take, on average, for the first freezeup to occur?
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7. Compare the temperatures of the bottom of your MB between 15-20 minutes of Power Adapter only use, and 15-20 minutes of Battery only use, with a cooling down period in between the two tests. Is there a huge difference in the two temperatures, or not much difference?
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