hussle87
join:2008-01-06
Sykesville, MD
| notebook batteries
I was wondering I recently bought a replacement battery for my acer aspire. It is a 8 cell battery but i only get like 1 and a half hours out of it. Is there any free tool than can tell me if all the cells are working? Because I thought I would be able to get like another hour out of it. |
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PeteC2
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| Hmm, I don't know about a battery measuring program...maybe someone else here does?
For an 8 cell battery, I agree, sounds like far too little run time. Of course, a lot of it matters as to how/what you are running while under battery power. A lot of disk access will really cut down your run time.
If your Acer is low on ram, say around only 1gb, just adding ram will actually gain you a bit of run time, as you will cut down on hard disk access.
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AdamB
join:2001-01-07
Westerville, OH | »www.pbus-167.com/ - notebook hardware control would be your best bet to check out the battery. |
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PeteC2
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| said by AdamB  :» www.pbus-167.com/ - notebook hardware control would be your best bet to check out the battery. Do you use this, AdamB? I'd like to get your take/experience with it!
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AdamB
join:2001-01-07
Westerville, OH
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| reply to hussle87
Yeah I've used it on all my Windows based laptops. It's a great little tool. You have to select a setting to view all of the options because it has advanced tools you can use. The features I use it most for are to keep track of battery cycles and wears as well as keeping tabs on hard drive and cpu temperatures. |
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Nerdtalker
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join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
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Re: notebook batteries
said by PeteC2 :Do you use this, AdamB? I'd like to get your take/experience with it! NHC is an extremely robust and powerful tool that a lot of people have been using. I certainly use it, and I would certainly recommend it if you're interested in using something low-level (if you want), but also readily easy to use. It's a great tool.
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dadkins
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| reply to PeteC2
said by PeteC2 :said by AdamB :» www.pbus-167.com/ - notebook hardware control would be your best bet to check out the battery. Do you use this, AdamB? I'd like to get your take/experience with it! Not Adam, but I use it on my XP machines - for various reasons.
A series for cranking the thing down and for battery info(4 year old battery).
AR series so I can trick it into playing a blu-ray while on battery. 
Don't have it on this Vista machine... yet.
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Madtown
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | reply to hussle87
I just downloaded it and giving it a test run if it does good I'm keeping it, if not what I expected I'm deleting it. |
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PeteC2
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clubs: | Yep, dl'd it and am using it now. Looks like a very useful utility, no "downside" to it that I can see so far!
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