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Laptop Battery-OT???
Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a
new whiz bang laptop. :\ So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old. Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college. It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously about 15% every 5 minutes. Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3 600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card. Thanks Mark |
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In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "pheasant" wrote:
Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a new whiz bang laptop. :\ So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old. Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college. It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously about 15% every 5 minutes. Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3 600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card. It needs a new battery. Don't know if this is good advice or not: I've heard that putting the battery in the freezer for a while helps. Try googling on Lithium and NIMH batteries for laptops. -- _____ / ' / â„¢ ,-/-, __ __. ____ /_ (_/ / (_(_/|_/ / _/ _ |
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Laptop Battery-OT???
On Oct 26, 9:08 am, "pheasant" wrote:
Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a new whiz bang laptop. :\ So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old. Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college. It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously about 15% every 5 minutes. Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3 600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card. Thanks Mark My notebooks battery held about 2HR worth of power, new. Now 2years later i get the low batt warrning allot sooner, may be 1hr. Try to completely drain and then fully charge battery, may be do it couple times in a row, this might make meter slightly more accurate but not whole bunch. New batt should solve ur problems. |
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when the battery died in my old hp, i just removed it, and used the ac
adapter instead. It's been like that for over 3 years now and works fine. Mike "fermineutron" wrote in message ups.com... On Oct 26, 9:08 am, "pheasant" wrote: Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a new whiz bang laptop. :\ So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old. Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college. It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously about 15% every 5 minutes. Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3 600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card. Thanks Mark My notebooks battery held about 2HR worth of power, new. Now 2years later i get the low batt warrning allot sooner, may be 1hr. Try to completely drain and then fully charge battery, may be do it couple times in a row, this might make meter slightly more accurate but not whole bunch. New batt should solve ur problems. |
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Laptop Battery-OT???
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:08:48 -0500, "pheasant"
wrote: Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a new whiz bang laptop. :\ So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old. Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college. It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously about 15% every 5 minutes. Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3 600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card. It is nearly done. Performance will only get worse from there. That's about a year longer than I'd expect out of a LI battery. |
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Laptop Battery-OT???
pheasant wrote:
Thanks Guys! We'll leave it plugged in. Appears they are considerably less expensive today then when I bought the last one should we decide to make it mobile again. Mark |
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