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Battery Death

post #1 of 4
12/9/03 at 4:31pm
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I have owned my sager for about a year and a half. Rcently the battery does this very weird thing where it work fine until about 80%-85% and then the power drops to 5% and I have to shut down or change my power supply. Does anyone have any thoughts to why this might be happening?
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post #2 of 4
12/9/03 at 4:42pm
The battery is dead, IOW, needs replacing.
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post #3 of 4
12/9/03 at 4:47pm
Yup..it's suffering the fate that all rechargeable batteries face at a point in time...

I hope you have the extended warranty otherwise you could be spending a somewhat significant amount of money for a replacement...
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post #4 of 4
12/11/03 at 5:30am
I have noticed that my battery is not charging to capacity. Using ACPI on linux kernel 2.4.22 my battery status output is something like: 2684mAh where as it should be closer to 4000mAh... i am curious what other people read their battery as at full charge. also is there a way to preserve/fix the battery if something is wrong with it? possibly hooking up a resistor (maybe a dc comp fan) to fully drain it. i have been running iwth the battery always in place and the comp almost continually plugged in. i have hear that this is best, am i mis-informed?

if you have the extended warranty will sager replace a dead battery? if soo... i might just wear mine into the ground ASAP

... spose that is enough questions for now.
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