Argh! Battery Life

[AndA]

Hi All,

My new compaq v2000 battery life only lasts about an hour! is this normal?, although it is a Turion 64 so it might suck up a bit of battery. And this is when im surfing the net!

Thanks Anda

[FoBZY]

Nfi if its normal or not but if you look it up and the battery isnt performing get it replaced asap...my compaq battery sucked from day one...but i didnt do anything about it. Died completely about a month later and compaq wouldnt do shit

[mordy]

1) have you observed any radical jumps in battery level, for example One second it reads 95% and then a few seconds later 45%?
2) have you ever fully charged it, and then later turned it on to find that the charge is significantly below 100% (less than 90 would be significant)?

both those circumstances point to a malfunctioning battery, as it does not sufficiantly store its charge.

I believe that compaq is required to replace it under warrantee as the battery warrantee will usually be a year (or 3 months for really cheapskate companies) Just give them a call and they should mail you a free replacement battery


If neither of these things have happened then you have 4 other possible problems
1) your computer isnt running its correct power saving utils and drivers and is therefore it is sucking power like a drain.
2) your computer totally sucks for battery life, and it only survives for an hour, live with it
3) compaq shipped your laptop with a pissweak 4-cell lithium which only has a thousand or so mAH capacity, so you will need to go and buy a more expensive 8-cell battery
4) you have a cataclismic motherboard or other hardware failure that is shorting out the battery and thereby draining the power at a rapid rate. call compaq and get the computer looked at for warrantee repair


if its none of those, then i dunno

[tez]

Could it be that the battery is brand new and would probably take a few charges / discharges to get the full life out of it?