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Anonymous   08-04-2005 at 01:32:40 AM

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I friend has a HP ZV5000 laptop and is having probs with the battery.
She has it fully charged - it says its charged 100%
BUT - if you pull the power connector, with the laptop on + full
battery,
it just shuts itself off -
I've not had a chance to look at it,
as we were using it to do some data transcribing work at the time.
It could be a totally bad battery, but I think she said it was replaced.
It could be some weird power meter setting, but I didn't look.

Any other ideas or suggestions to pursue ?

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Anonymous   08-04-2005 at 01:32:41 AM
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Phil Schuman wrote:
> I friend has a HP ZV5000 laptop and is having probs with the battery.
> She has it fully charged - it says its charged 100%
> BUT - if you pull the power connector, with the laptop on + full
> battery,
> it just shuts itself off -
> I've not had a chance to look at it,
> as we were using it to do some data transcribing work at the time.
> It could be a totally bad battery, but I think she said it was
> replaced. It could be some weird power meter setting, but I didn't
> look.
>
> Any other ideas or suggestions to pursue ?

"Fully charged" can represent any state of charge, even zero, depending
on the reporting system. How old is the laptop/battery, and has the
battery been installed since the laptop was new? The simple explanation
is that the battery is in fact dead.

Q

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Anonymous   08-04-2005 at 03:12:12 AM
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Phil Schuman <pschuman_NO_SPAM_ME@interserv.com> wrote:
> I friend has a HP ZV5000 laptop and is having probs with the battery.
> She has it fully charged - it says its charged 100%
> BUT - if you pull the power connector, with the laptop on + full
> battery,
> it just shuts itself off -
> I've not had a chance to look at it,
> as we were using it to do some data transcribing work at the time.
> It could be a totally bad battery, but I think she said it was replaced.
> It could be some weird power meter setting, but I didn't look.
>
> Any other ideas or suggestions to pursue ?

I had this exact same scenario on my laptop and the battery was indeed
defective. It showed the same problem in an other laptop of the same
type and after replacing the battery my laptop again worked fine.

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Anonymous   08-07-2005 at 10:32:43 AM
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Phil Schuman wrote:
> I friend has a HP ZV5000 laptop and is having probs with the battery.
> She has it fully charged - it says its charged 100%
> BUT - if you pull the power connector, with the laptop on + full
> battery,
> it just shuts itself off -
> I've not had a chance to look at it,
> as we were using it to do some data transcribing work at the time.
> It could be a totally bad battery, but I think she said it was replaced.
> It could be some weird power meter setting, but I didn't look.
>
> Any other ideas or suggestions to pursue ?

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