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01-26-2005, 05:20 PM
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Laptop Shuts Down Early
Hi,
i have a laptop that is about 1 year old. recently, It has started switching off when running off battery supply when it has about 59% still available battery life. Does anyone know why it does this. It doesnt shut down, it just switches off without shutting down as though the power ha gone on it. i have check the power settings and that isnt supposed to take effect until 4% which if it worked it would then hibernate, but it doesnt do this. if it is any help my laptop make is ei systems with intel celeron and im running on xp |
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01-26-2005, 06:42 PM
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Wrench Bender
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Sounds like a battery going bad. It may read 59%, but the battery may only holding a surface charge.
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01-26-2005, 08:10 PM
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Member (14 bit)
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do you know what type of battery it is ?
it does sound like it is going south. try changing you settings in power management to never let it run completely down and then let it recharge do this a few times and see it it helps some batteries will develope a pattern from not letting it run down before a recharge. you could replace the battery with a Nimh type of battery, this type does not develope this problem. Last edited by bailey; 01-26-2005 at 08:14 PM. |
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01-27-2005, 04:19 PM
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Member (6 bit)
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how do i find out what type of batttery it is?
I can't find any info on it.can you help? |
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01-27-2005, 04:27 PM
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Member (14 bit)
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you know what the brand of the laptop is, just google the model number and you will find the spects for it and what kind of battery it is.
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01-27-2005, 04:39 PM
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ive tried this but still no joy. it is an ei system 4416.i cant find any info anywhere? am i being stupid here?
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01-27-2005, 06:33 PM
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Member (10 bit)
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It's a lithium ion. I have seen windows misreport battery charge before. You should be able to check the battery in the bios and see if it reports the same amount of charge as windows. IIRC, the fix was to turn off all of the power management options and let the battery drain completely.
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01-28-2005, 05:10 AM
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Member (6 bit)
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any chance you could explain how to do all of this as im an absolute beginner with all of this
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