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My Lappy doesn't show time remaining

post #1 of 8
8/18/04 at 2:46am
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Hi,

My laptop doesn't show time remaining. Neither through the windows power management nor SpeedswitchXP.

Anyone have any ideas why this might be?

Thanks

Oh, and it's a CL56
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post #2 of 8
8/18/04 at 5:11pm
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Anyone have a problem like this before?
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post #3 of 8
8/18/04 at 5:15pm
Hey my Acer 2012 does not ethier all i get is a percent how ever just time how long it takes to use all of battery and use that as a guide, for instance if u get 4 hours then 50% would be 2 hours, thats how i do it anyway. if u find a way please tell
thanks
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post #4 of 8
8/18/04 at 5:40pm
My CL56 running Windows XP does NOT show the time remaining on the battery either. It will show a percentage, but not time remaining.

If you want to see time remaining, download batterymon from passmark. It is free for 30 days, then it is $18 or something like that. Here is a link:

http://www.passmark.com/products/batmon.htm

Many on here use it to run tests to see how there battery is performing. Hope this helps.
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post #5 of 8
8/19/04 at 4:24pm
the cl56 isn't fully acpi compliant..therefore it's missing the charge/discharge rate/monitor....o well...at least the percentages still work :/ that's also why there isn't a time indication for how much battery life is left
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post #6 of 8
8/19/04 at 4:30pm
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Originally Posted by Jeffnt326
batmon doesn't work with the cl56...reason being...the cl56 isn't fully acpi compliant..therefore it's missing the charge/discharge rate/monitor....o well...at least the percentages still work :/
Yes, that’s true at least the percentages still work. I have a Ibm X21, it shows both the percentage and the time remaining, but strangely once it hits zero it just keeps on going, and then will just turn off, how convenient. I've taken to using my stopwatch on my watch to time it. It runs for 2 hours and then suddenly dies. I've tried everything that IBM has said to try to fix it, and personally I think that the battery is wacky. Anyways be thankful that you have SOME indication of what’s going on, I wish I did with the X21.

Edit: I have used aftermarket programs too, and they don't work.
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post #7 of 8
8/19/04 at 5:26pm
What's the best battery monitor program out there that uses the least system resources and can be put in the taskbar?
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post #8 of 8
8/21/04 at 4:55am
Hi everyone! Can someone send me the "compbatt.sys" file on C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers ? My file was corrupted and all that I could find was a file from an HP... sometimes the meter just seems to be "stucked" on the same % and when I click on the icon on the taskbar it shows fine again... thank you all!
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