Ok, as you can see from my sig, I've had my system for about 2 years now. Well recently my battery has started only lasting about 90 minutes on average. The strange part is that less than 6 months ago I was taking it to work with me and letting it sit on the back counter playing music for nearly 4 hours.
The only thing I've done in the past four months that could have had any effect on battery performance was changing from a 1.7 Pentium M(Bania) to a 2.0 Pentium M(Dothan) and theoretically that should have actually improved my battery performance a tiny bit. I just had to replace my HDD last week because my old one was about to crash. I thought that maybe that was the problem and when I reinstalled WindowsXP that it may have remedied the problem. No dice. Problem still exists. So I'm left with one of two choices...
Buy a new battery -or- Try to hunt down the problem
Any guesses. Is it common for batteries to degrage suddenly like that? Or could it be something else going on in my system?
The only thing I've done in the past four months that could have had any effect on battery performance was changing from a 1.7 Pentium M(Bania) to a 2.0 Pentium M(Dothan) and theoretically that should have actually improved my battery performance a tiny bit. I just had to replace my HDD last week because my old one was about to crash. I thought that maybe that was the problem and when I reinstalled WindowsXP that it may have remedied the problem. No dice. Problem still exists. So I'm left with one of two choices...
Buy a new battery -or- Try to hunt down the problem
Any guesses. Is it common for batteries to degrage suddenly like that? Or could it be something else going on in my system?
