I've read some of the previous posts about battery problems, but I'm not convinced that all the answers I read apply to my situation (or maybe they do, which doubt causes me to post anyways)
I'm the dubiously "proud" owner of a Sager NP8880 'desktop replacement'
notebook. Since I bought it back in November of 2002, I've had nothing
but trouble with several things, the latest of which is the battery.
When I bought it, I chose to buy an extra LiON battery as a spare for
traveling. Never mind that these things weigh about 2 pounds each.
Anyways, after a year of use the first battery gradually became less
able to hold a full charge (about 2 hours) and seemed to use up power
at an increasing rate over time. When I stopped using the first
battery, I was barely able to use it for even 1 hour before it was at
0%.
So, I swapped in the spare and started using it regularly. Same thing
is happening now coming up on a year of use. It used to hold over 2
hours of charge brand new and this morning it said that at 100%, I had
about 1 hour and 19 minutes of charge. My usual pattern of use is
charging it overnight, using it 1 hour on the train to work, charging
it at work, and then using it 1 hour on the train home, with a recharge
in the evening for the next day. What gives?
Some other interesting strangeness:
- Last night, when I tried to shut down the computer after it hit 0%
again, the OS froze and it wouldn't shut down. I decided that it was
going to shut off a discharge anyway, so I waited...and waited. It
took over an hour for the thing to finally die, which led me to believe
maybe the battery metering software is lying to me.
- Sometimes, after a complete recharge, the battery warning beeper
will go off, even though I know it was fully recharged. After a while
it will stop and I'll continue using it, but the battery indicator will
steadily (and quickly) drop.
- The main and most FRUSTRATING pattern I've seen lately is that after
I turn it off with well above 40% left and leave it overnight without
recharging, the next morning it will be at or near 0% charge and I'm
stuck not being able to work on the train because of it.
I DON'T want to have to replace these batteries every year at $90 a
pop!! Plus, they suck to swap back and forth between two batteries
because Sager was still in the stone age when they engineered this
thing and they actually used SCREWS insead of a catch/release latch. I
have to carry a friggin screwdriver everywhere I go "just in case" it
freezes up on me. Try smuggling a screwdriver on an airplane these
days and you'll feel my pain.
HELP!
Thanks.
I'm the dubiously "proud" owner of a Sager NP8880 'desktop replacement'
notebook. Since I bought it back in November of 2002, I've had nothing
but trouble with several things, the latest of which is the battery.
When I bought it, I chose to buy an extra LiON battery as a spare for
traveling. Never mind that these things weigh about 2 pounds each.
Anyways, after a year of use the first battery gradually became less
able to hold a full charge (about 2 hours) and seemed to use up power
at an increasing rate over time. When I stopped using the first
battery, I was barely able to use it for even 1 hour before it was at
0%.
So, I swapped in the spare and started using it regularly. Same thing
is happening now coming up on a year of use. It used to hold over 2
hours of charge brand new and this morning it said that at 100%, I had
about 1 hour and 19 minutes of charge. My usual pattern of use is
charging it overnight, using it 1 hour on the train to work, charging
it at work, and then using it 1 hour on the train home, with a recharge
in the evening for the next day. What gives?
Some other interesting strangeness:
- Last night, when I tried to shut down the computer after it hit 0%
again, the OS froze and it wouldn't shut down. I decided that it was
going to shut off a discharge anyway, so I waited...and waited. It
took over an hour for the thing to finally die, which led me to believe
maybe the battery metering software is lying to me.
- Sometimes, after a complete recharge, the battery warning beeper
will go off, even though I know it was fully recharged. After a while
it will stop and I'll continue using it, but the battery indicator will
steadily (and quickly) drop.
- The main and most FRUSTRATING pattern I've seen lately is that after
I turn it off with well above 40% left and leave it overnight without
recharging, the next morning it will be at or near 0% charge and I'm
stuck not being able to work on the train because of it.
I DON'T want to have to replace these batteries every year at $90 a
pop!! Plus, they suck to swap back and forth between two batteries
because Sager was still in the stone age when they engineered this
thing and they actually used SCREWS insead of a catch/release latch. I
have to carry a friggin screwdriver everywhere I go "just in case" it
freezes up on me. Try smuggling a screwdriver on an airplane these
days and you'll feel my pain.
HELP!
Thanks.
) for almost 15 minutes!!! Then steadily went down to 0%
