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    Crazy Led display??

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Gabobb, Feb 3, 2010.

  1. Gabobb

    Gabobb Notebook Guru

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    For a month now, everytime I left my G50VT X5 Charging, my led display has been showing values over 100 for the battery life display, it first starte with 102, and it has gotten to 110%. Should I be worried??
     
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    haniunited Notebook Consultant

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    Happens sometimes here, I wouldn't be worried, no. It's not like the battery is actually charging 110%, its just a flaw the in software of the LED or an issue that could have been caused by some software you are running..
     
    haniunited, Feb 4, 2010
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    Perhaps you should try totally draining your battery to zero, and then totally charging it back up again to recalibrate your battery? Or do you no longer have to do that with modern batteries?
     
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    I was thinking that too - I wouldn't drain it down to 0 though, but take it from full to nearly empty (say 3% or so) a couple of times to recondition it and see if the display becomes more accurate after that is my suggestion.

    Peter
     
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    Thanks for all the answer :D , I will try to recalibrate my battery and then see what happens.
     
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    Perhaps you should try totally draining your battery to zero, and then totally charging it back up again to recalibrate your battery? Or do you no longer have to do that with modern batteries?

    In theory you don't, but I don't know what kind of firmware the G50 uses for its LED display. Windows can read the information right from the "smart battery," but other software just keeps an internal log of the capacity.
     
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