Power Meter for Battery Life Not Working

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Ever Since I installed a new bigger Hard Drive (from12 gigs to 60 gigs) and
Windows XP Home, my Power Meter on the laptop has been giving me bogus
readings. It will drop from “3:00 hours remaining� to 80% in an hour then
drop to 3% ten minutes later without warning and lock up my system.

Just this evening, I started and unplugged the laptop at 7:30pm and meter
said 100% and 3:00 hours left. At 8:20pm power meter said 2:43minutes
remaining.

At 8:44pm the audible alarm sounded showing 3% battery left, (it never did
show a text alarm at the 10% like I had it set) The audible alarm keeps
beeping until the laptop shuts down or I plug in the power cord. At that time
I plugged in the power cord and the meter shows 3%.

I have tried three different batteries, with the same problem.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

 

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The "power meters" are "laptop specific". If you have reinstalled the
correct drivers you may still have to recalibrate the meter. Please
check tech support at the laptop vendor/manufacturers web site for
assistance and instructions.

jjv wrote:

> Ever Since I installed a new bigger Hard Drive (from12 gigs to 60 gigs) and
> Windows XP Home, my Power Meter on the laptop has been giving me bogus
> readings. It will drop from "3:00 hours remaining� to 80% in an hour then
> drop to 3% ten minutes later without warning and lock up my system.
>
> Just this evening, I started and unplugged the laptop at 7:30pm and meter
> said 100% and 3:00 hours left. At 8:20pm power meter said 2:43minutes
> remaining.
>
> At 8:44pm the audible alarm sounded showing 3% battery left, (it never did
> show a text alarm at the 10% like I had it set) The audible alarm keeps
> beeping until the laptop shuts down or I plug in the power cord. At that time
> I plugged in the power cord and the meter shows 3%.
>
> I have tried three different batteries, with the same problem.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
>

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

same issues with me.
i think its the issue with the laptop battery. i do drain out the battery a
lots of time so i dont know why is it doing this ....

probably needs a re-build.


"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The "power meters" are "laptop specific". If you have reinstalled the
> correct drivers you may still have to recalibrate the meter. Please check
> tech support at the laptop vendor/manufacturers web site for assistance
> and instructions.
>
> jjv wrote:
>
>> Ever Since I installed a new bigger Hard Drive (from12 gigs to 60 gigs)
>> and Windows XP Home, my Power Meter on the laptop has been giving me
>> bogus readings. It will drop from "3:00 hours remaining" to 80% in an
>> hour then drop to 3% ten minutes later without warning and lock up my
>> system. Just this evening, I started and unplugged the laptop at 7:30pm
>> and meter said 100% and 3:00 hours left. At 8:20pm power meter said
>> 2:43minutes remaining.
>>
>> At 8:44pm the audible alarm sounded showing 3% battery left, (it never
>> did show a text alarm at the 10% like I had it set) The audible alarm
>> keeps beeping until the laptop shuts down or I plug in the power cord. At
>> that time I plugged in the power cord and the meter shows 3%.
>>
>> I have tried three different batteries, with the same problem. Does
>> anyone know how to fix this problem?
>>
>