Hi guys, just wondering if anyone's seen anything like this before...
My battery indicator light is green, and the power meter in Windows is reading 100%. However if I unplug from mains power it starts beeping as if it is on critical battery. Windows then typically starts to shut itself down, but runs out of juice before it can do so, as if you had pulled the plug on a desktop. It doesn't even start to power up when I press the power button, until I plug it back in.
I removed the power lead just now and it started beeping, so I put the power lead back in. The battery light is now orange. Power Meter started saying it's on 1% battery, charging, and it's going up gradually (currently at 11%). Mobmeter.exe however is saying the Charge Rate is 0.00w.
I would just assume that the battery has somehow been fried (although I don't know how this could have happened since I don't play games on battery - in fact it's on mains pretty much the whole time), but it was showing similar behaviour before, then a few days ago I got it going for 20 or 30 mins on the battery.
I've tried taking the battery out and putting it back in again, but there's no obvious bad contact.
Any suggestions? Could I have a virus (unlikely because I'm running Panda Security), or perhaps something's up with the battery driver? If I need a new 8-cell battery does anyone know where I can get one, in the UK preferably? Part number D870PBAT-8. When I google the code I can only find a couple of places in the US, and they're out of stock. None of the usual laptop parts shops seem to stock batteries for this model of Clevo.
My battery indicator light is green, and the power meter in Windows is reading 100%. However if I unplug from mains power it starts beeping as if it is on critical battery. Windows then typically starts to shut itself down, but runs out of juice before it can do so, as if you had pulled the plug on a desktop. It doesn't even start to power up when I press the power button, until I plug it back in.
I removed the power lead just now and it started beeping, so I put the power lead back in. The battery light is now orange. Power Meter started saying it's on 1% battery, charging, and it's going up gradually (currently at 11%). Mobmeter.exe however is saying the Charge Rate is 0.00w.
I would just assume that the battery has somehow been fried (although I don't know how this could have happened since I don't play games on battery - in fact it's on mains pretty much the whole time), but it was showing similar behaviour before, then a few days ago I got it going for 20 or 30 mins on the battery.
I've tried taking the battery out and putting it back in again, but there's no obvious bad contact.
Any suggestions? Could I have a virus (unlikely because I'm running Panda Security), or perhaps something's up with the battery driver? If I need a new 8-cell battery does anyone know where I can get one, in the UK preferably? Part number D870PBAT-8. When I google the code I can only find a couple of places in the US, and they're out of stock. None of the usual laptop parts shops seem to stock batteries for this model of Clevo.
before starting beeping and the power meter was back to 10%.
