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I've been playing with my Win98, HP laptop's power meter and a VB app using the sysinfo control to monitor battery charge/discharge.
The info seems to be updating every 2 minutes, but with > 4 year-old batts, a lot can happen in 2 min.
Anyone know if the interval can be changed, e.g. to once every minute?
Or if there's a better way to monitor this?
Thanks, DaveBo
My battery is dying fast in my HP laptop, which is about 2 years old. It lasts about 20 minutes on a good day, yet the power meter always says that it's fully charged, even when it is shutting itself down automatically. Luckily the Windows control knows when to shut down power.
Try searching you regestry, if there is a setting that's probably where it is.
It also sounds like you both need to totaly discharge you batteries.
I've only done that once before. It was a while ago, when the battery was still good. Batteries only last about 2 years, so I'm going to replace mine when it gets a bit worse. So far, it runs long enough to do what I need when on-site.
It's rare that I can't plug it in, though.
Laptop batteries should last a whole lot longer than that. I have an old dell (~6 years old) that still works fine. Sure it doesn't last as long as it did when it was new, but that's to be expected.
I bought a replacement battery for my Hp laptop about a month ago from Laptopsforless.com
and it works great. Is there any reason to think that a replacement Hp laptop battery would be any worse than the manufacturers? My concern is the laptop battery fire risk, would this be a risk with a replacement battery?