Battery problems

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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> On 03/10/2012 04:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 03/10/2012 08:41 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> It sounds like a bad battery. At least I have had the same thing
>>> happen in both Linux and Windows when a battery was going bad. Also,
>>> if you do not cycle the battery, the chip that monitors battery life
>>> in the battery does not get updated to the current battery life, so
>>> it ends up reporting the battery state incorrectly. (The chip is in
>>> the battery, not the computer.)
>>
>> How do I get the battery to cycle? It HAS been a long time since a
REAL poweroff (number of reboots). Also I have not run the battery
down for a long time. Really not since I got the system back in
Jan... I bet I am past my 90 day warranty...
>>
>>
Sorry for the late response. This is normally covered in the user's
manual. What you do is first fully charge the battery. Then you
unplug the power and let the system run down until it does an
automatic shutdown. Then you charge it up again. Some systems come
with a utility that runs the battery down, so you do not have to
worry about your OS shutting the system down too soon.

Mikkel
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