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    My Acer 6920g battery life goes from 100% to 4% in a matter of minutes?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zammyfighter, Nov 25, 2010.

  1. zammyfighter

    zammyfighter Notebook Enthusiast

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    This has been happening for a while. I'm using power saver mode on my Acer 6920g, and whenever I unplug my laptop, the battery life goes from 100% to 4% in 2 minutes. Is there any way I can fix this.
     
    zammyfighter, Nov 25, 2010
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    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    How old is your laptop? Does your battery continue to run after the 2 minutes? Do you have any programs to monitor power consumption?
     
    sgogeta4, Nov 25, 2010
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    My laptop is 1 year old. It does continue to run, but only for a few more minutes until it shuts down. And no I do not have a program that monitors the power consumption.
     
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    Try Battery monitor... It is trial for 30days so you can monitor power consumption... Or try HWMonitor which is free...

    May be your battery just needs calibration or in worse case it reached its end-time...

    Hope it will help...

    Cheers
     
    Arminator, Nov 25, 2010
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  5. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    I'd use HWMonitor to compare current battery capacity to the original capacity.
    In most cases what you've described means the battery is dying.
     
    downloads, Nov 25, 2010
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    jerg Have fun. Stay alive.

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    I have an issue relating to HWMonitor and battery, whereas until yesterday, HWMonitor shows a LOT of info, including battery capacity. But suddenly starting yesterday it only shows GPU/CPU/HDD temperatures, nothing else. What might be the cause of that?
     
    jerg, Nov 25, 2010
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    How am I suppose to fix it?
     
    zammyfighter, Nov 26, 2010
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    Arminator, Nov 26, 2010
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    Are you on windows 7? Because this happened to be once i changed from vista to 7. not sure if it is actually dying or some settings
     
    hamzie, Nov 26, 2010
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    I'm on Vista and i've always been Vista, and for the HW monitor, I don't see my battery. Where is it? What is it suppose to be named?
     
    zammyfighter, Nov 26, 2010
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    I have similiar problem. My battery was fine and I could work normally on it. Suddenly after some time of not using the laptop(a couple of weeks) it stopped working. When I work on fully loaded battery it shows 100% and slowly drains it(just as it's supposed to) then after lets say 15 minutes it drops to 0% and my pc hibernates itself. When I launch it back in it shows 0% but continues to work. What may be wrong? Win 7 x64 btw.
     
    MapMan, Nov 26, 2010
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  12. downloads

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    It may just need recalibration- let it run for as long as it can while showing 0% and then fully recharge the battery without switching on the computer.
     
    downloads, Nov 26, 2010
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    scroll down to the bottom and it says Battery 1 and Levels
     
    hamzie, Nov 26, 2010
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    Either of you using RMClock?
     
    sgogeta4, Nov 26, 2010
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    I used to use RMclock on vista but now in win7 the throttling problem is gone by itself so no. Ima try recalibrating the battery as downloads said.
     
    MapMan, Nov 28, 2010
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