On 17/02/2014 17:46, Mick wrote: > On Monday 17 Feb 2014 15:18:24 Will Hopper wrote: >> FWIW, I second what Alan said - i have the same problem with an old netbook >> battery, and I think it is a problem with what the battery is reporting, >> because sometimes the bios pauses before start up and complains about how >> the battery won't take a charge or has low capacity or something, and other >> times it goes on its way. E also has trouble reporting the status, and >> often times the only way it gets semi accurate is after i accidentally let >> it die - something about that sudden seems to get things in the battery >> recallibrated, at least for a short time. > > Thank you both. It seems strange that the battery broadly lasts as long as > it > did before it suddenly collapsed shutting down my laptop. I'll be placing an > order soon for a replacement.
I wanted to mention something about that earlier, and forgot :-( You got 5 years out of a regular battery, Li-ion I presume? That's a fantastic life span where the broad average is more like 2 years before the bell curve starts biting. I'm think I be wanting to know who made that battery because yours was a damn fine product! -- Alan McKinnon [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
