My laptop has a lihium-ion battery, its about 3 years old. my laptop no longer works on battery alone..it has to be plugged in to the mains to work. The battey icon has a cross on it and says 8% remaining. It will not charge up and my laptop sporadically switches off and i have difficulty getting it started agan. Has the battery completely an out? why wont it charge up? do i need a new battery or is it something to do with the laptop? thanx =)
2007-11-12 21:14:08 · 13 answers · asked by aphrodite 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The make of laptop is toshiba satellite L10-333
2007-11-12 21:21:08 · update #1
Whats bios and how do i get into that?
2007-11-12 21:22:47 · update #2
I suspect you have been advised to run the battery flat in bios to a full discharge. Given what you have said I doubt that complete discharge will help.
When your laptop first boots up you should see a line at the bottom of the screen which says "press delete to enter setup"
It may state another key but delete tends to be the most common.
You only have a couple of seconds to press this and get into bios.
DO NOT CHANGE ANY settings in the bios.
A new bettery for a L10 will cost you around £50.
After three years it's likely had its day.
It is not unknown for the power pack to cook the battery and not damage the laptop but it is more likely that the battery is simply exhausted.
Whilst Li-on batteries do not suffer voltage depression (memory effect) as associated with Ni-cad they can suffer what is referred to as 'digital memory'. There is little point in going into the full story but a 90% or equipment cut-off point discharge is advised by some manufacturers engineers every 30 or so cycles. Other producers may state this is not required and many Li-on batteries have onboard protection.
Certainly until two years ago ACER tech were suggesting a bios level discharge for Li-on batteries in some of their laptops, from new!!
In your case (as I have already stated) allowing the battery to discharge on bios is unlikely to help.
Total discharge of li-on battery is more likely to kill it than help it. The cut-off point should be no less than 1volt.
Some very interesting thumbs down activity here !! I see a definitive pattern.
2007-11-12 21:40:24 · answer #1 · answered by Black Sapphire 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your battery probably is dead.
Li-Ion batteries tend to lose their ability to store a charge as they get older (and there's nothing you can do to reverse it, nor is there anything you can do other than put the battery in the fridge to stop it (and that'll only slow it down)).
A new battery might be a good idea but a new battery may also have aged quite a bit on the store shelves (especially if it is 'new' old stock) and not have as much capacity as you would expect a new battery to have (but given that it'll be at about 40% charge it'll age slower).
You may have also followed the rather stupid advise some people give to discharge the battery a lot which only applies to Nickel batteries, not Lithium batteries (and even with Nickel batteries is only needed every so often, not every time). Li-Ion batteries can only survive several hundred charge-discharge cycles so they are better treated by plugging them in and charging them whenever you get a chance.
2007-11-12 21:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lithium-ion batteries, like all other rechargeable batteries, have a lifetime and a maximum number of charge/discharge cycles after which the cells of the battery stop functioning the way they're supposed to and the battery needs to be changed. If you say you've had the laptop since 3 years then you probably need to change the battery.
There are many ways in which you can maximize the lifetime of your battery. These include, but are not limited to, not subjecting the battery to any extreme conditions and minimizing the number of charging cycles by waiting until the battery is completely discharged before charging it again. If you want more details on lithium-ion batteries you can check out the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery
Hope this was helpful....
2007-11-12 21:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by Quasar 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a lot of misconceptions about what makes a battery flow undesirable. Batteries basically flow undesirable the added they are used era. the purely element you should do to delay the existence is do not use all of them the time. if you're sitting next to a wall receptacle, plug in. Overcharging lately is a fantasy. The batteries AND the contraptions that use them have regulators and over charge safe practices. ALL batteries are considered perishable contraptions. there's no such element as a battery that ought to very last always. yet another idiotic element human beings do with laptops is close them and enable them sleep. turn it off at the same time as no longer utilising it. It takes the clicking of a pair keys to start up the position you left off at something. if you're to lazy to press keys in order that that you'll be able to start the position you left off, you're fairly pitiful. Edit: Then there are the dimwits who inform you to take the battery out. those batteries do no longer drain even if or not they are in circuit or out at the same time as the charger is plugged in. once you've a battery that drains, it really is on its way out contained in the first position.
2016-10-24 03:44:35 · answer #4 · answered by benjamine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A program called "MobleMetre" will as well as telling you the temperature of your system, tell you the wear and tear value of your laptop battery.
Such as "The original capicity" and what you can hope to get out of it now.
Recycling might help squeeze the battery of more. You do that by letting it run completely flat, you may have to do this at the bios screen as inside Windows it will just go to standby rather than 'dying' then let it charge whilst its off completely. Hopefully when it's fully charged, turned back on, you should have some more life in it.
I think it's safe to say after three year it's worth buying a new battery.
Things can go wrong on the laptop side however such as the charging circuit, but I think batteries take alot more wear and tear and do eventually die.
2007-11-12 21:46:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's probably the battery. If it's a Dell, you'd probably be able to replace the battery for far less than the cost of a new laptop, in general. No guarantees. You can go also into the BIOS and do a battery check, this simply powers down your battery completely, then charges it back up. If there is a problem, then it should tell you.
2007-11-12 21:21:00 · answer #6 · answered by anthemboy101 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My lithium battery gradually lasts less and less time - I have a Toshiba Satellite eventually I have to buy a new battery, this happens with every battery. I dont understand why laptop batteries are so hopeless, I have a rechargeable screwdriver, I leave it on charge all the time when I am not using it and the charged battery lasts the same length of time regardless of whether its new or old.
2007-11-12 21:21:29 · answer #7 · answered by hemsty 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
most likely its youre battery depending on how you used it tips i can tell you about conserving your next battery would be
-if youre not going to use your lap top for some week or two, take out the battery pack
-dont expose it to extreme heat or extreme cold, hot batteries discharge quickly and cold ones doesnt produce much power
-fully charge battery before using
-Leaving a battery in a laptop while using an electrical outlet for long periods of time will keep the battery in a constant state of charging up and that will reduce the life cycle of the battery.
2007-11-12 21:22:02 · answer #8 · answered by rvca_va 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well... Considering you didn't specify the brand... I can't really say too much about it... But I believe that battery has been worn out... 3 years old and being charged and used and charged and used... Constantly... Wouldn't you be worn out too if you were a battery? But yes... You will need to get a new one... Take it to like Circut City or CompUSA and they should be able to find a battery for it... Take either the laptop or the battery... And also... Probably a new charger wouldn't hurt...
2007-11-12 21:19:16 · answer #9 · answered by Shadow 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
3 year is already long. Try to change the battery or buy new laptop.
2007-11-12 21:17:25 · answer #10 · answered by ebil79 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋