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Notebook Battery Help! Hp Pavillion zv500 |
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 Replies: 7 — Last Post May 19, 2008 2:32pm by marshmellowman
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Hey! I was wondering if any of you guys have any suggestions. I have a HP Pavillion zv5240 Notebook. The problem is with the battery, the moment I unplug the A/C cord, it runs on battery for 45 to 1 minute and 30 seconds and then it powers off. The windows battery meter says 100% and it drops down to 94% and then it powers off, After rebooting, it restarts with 1% charging but when it reaches to 8% it says its fully charged at 100% I used a problem called mobilemeter to check the battery health and this is what it says,
The wear level is 65%
and it can hold 30917 mWh So i'm thinking, wait, this doesn't make sense, the battery is only worn out 1/5 way, and if brand new, it should last me 2 hours, and its only used up half, so shouldnt I get 1 hour of battery life still? I'm suspecting someone wrong with the battery manangement inside the laptop.
Any ideas? If im guessing, it will do the same thing with a new set of battery.
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I am running: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5600+
3GB Memory Dual Channel, 400GB hard drive
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there are a number of things that could be wrong with your battery. there could be a bad contact, the battery could be malfunctioning, or the battery has simply run out of uses. My dad has a laptop that does basically the same thing, it runs on 100% battery for a few seconds and then runs out. He replaced the battery with a brand new one, but the same thing happened. We found out that it was a bad contact, and that he needed to replace it. He thought it would be better to just buy a new laptop, though because his was so old.
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Yea, that's what I thought, could be something wrong with the laptop even with a bad battery. Which could explain it, Well I guess i can use it as a "portable desktop" with 45 seconds to move it around and plug it back in. So im just gonna keep it pluged in. lol
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I am running: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5600+
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it's about 3 years old but its in really good condition, i even flashed the bios which hp says fixes a battery problem which it didnt
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okay thank you! I think i'm not even gonna bother with the battery and use it as a portable desktop. 45 seconds should be long enough for me to move the laptop around lol.
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Yea, that's what I thought, could be something wrong with the laptop even with a bad battery. Which could explain it, Well I guess i can use it as a "portable desktop" with 45 seconds to move it around and plug it back in. So im just gonna keep it pluged in. lol
