Laptop Battery-OT???

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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
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "pheasant said:
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.
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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.
 
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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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.
 
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
 
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.
Click to expand...


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.
 
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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