Windows 7 Killed my Battery
Submitted by jdileona@uoguelph.ca on February 8, 2010 - 16:08.
So my Lenovo T61's battery has fallen victim of Window 7's battery bug. It basically perma-destroys your battery, as it falsely reads its capacity. Today i went from Full charge(3 hours) to 2 and a half hours, than jumped to 5 minutes, and than shutoff.
I than installed Linux Mint, and its doing the same thing.
Im now forced to buy a new battery, Lenovo wants 250 including tax for a 9cell 10.8v battery. Bit of a punch to my pockets, any suggestions.
this is what i was looking at.
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/webca/LenovoPortal/en_CA...
So should i go with Lenovo, or grab a generic one off tigerdirect.ca
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Batteries are the gold-mine
Batteries are the gold-mine of companies. They are nothing but pure profit. There are plenty of good-quality generic batteries at lower prices. Shop around. Fleabay is always a good option.
Or, if you're feeling particularly adventurous, you could rebuild the battery yourself. It does take some electronics skill though.
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How about this
How about this one
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpN...
here it is on the manufacturerès website
http://www.battery-biz.com/Product/+/+/+/B-5028H/a.aspx
any idea if this is legit, i have no experience with buying a laptop battery.
Again, fleabay is your
Again, fleabay is your friend:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-ThinkPad-T60-T60P-T61-R60-R60E-R61-R61E-Battery_W...
You can get a new one plus a spare for what tiger wants.
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Battery woes
I've never heard of an OS killing a battery. Most of the time, if the battery lasts under 3 years, it's due to poor maintenance. For one, people leave their laptops plugged in and charging far too long. Lithium likes to be used, and prefer to be stored at 40% iirc.
Anyway, the only laptop battery I ever bought was in China, and therefore EXTREMELY generic haha. I've been happy. From what I've read about rebuilding batteries, I wouldn't advise it, simply because I believe it's too much risk (to the laptop and you).
And the above are right, batteries are huge money makers. There's likely no difference between the generic and name brand one. Probably made in the same frickin factory, even.
An OS can't kill your
An OS can't kill your battery; everything goes through ACPI which is read only. Your battery was all ready on the edge of death; the only possibility is that Windows is thinking your battery is out of charge and hibernating automatically, or the opposite (which is what happened with my old battery on my macbook; at below %20 charge there was a good chance it'd just shut off).
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2010/02/08/windows-7-battery-notificati...
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