laptops

[maggot4life]

ok i have a Advent 7086 laptop which i bought this year in may, the battery life on the thing usto be abt 1 hour and 15mins wen fully charged now it seems to be around 35mins, and i have had the laptop repaired under warranty from the manufacturer..

can anyone explain to me why the battery life of my laptop has reduced so much, is this meant to happen? and why does it require so much charging the battery seems to get alot more empty aswell

[joko]

mine did that and went to about 5 mins!
i started leaving it plugged in permanently (even when comp wasn't on)
as it also started to go off after a few mins of being on and i would have to unplug the lead over and over, until it stayed on

after a while i turned it off over night and it now lasts for about and hour again...god knows why this happened, but it may be worth a try...?

[stevec46]

You need to let your battery run down completely before charging, the best way to do this is to wait until the battery is fairly low, then restart the Laptop, but don't go into XP, do you have a 'Boot Disk' you can use or go into set up?Reason for this is that XP will go into hybernation to try and save power, so there will still be power in your battery,really need to run it down completetly, then Fully charge.

The reason that your battery isn't lasting so long is because of the way you are charging it, also, if you are now doing 'More Power' things with your laptop (i.e applications), that will run down battery faster.

Steve

[maggot4life]

thanx joko thanx steve *starts to run down battery fast with use of porn, death metal, flashy images and anwserbank*

lol cheers