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    how come laptop standby at 55% battery?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by lucirz, Nov 12, 2009.

  1. lucirz

    lucirz Notebook Consultant

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    i had this inspiron 1520 for a while now and everything is good but for the last 3 months, my has been standing by when the bar hits 55%. i've checked the battery settings and it's supposed to alarm me when it hits 10% and only standby at 5% but idk why it's doing at 55%. i changed the battery settings to different value but still at 55% it standbys. has this battery been used to many times?
     
    lucirz, Nov 12, 2009
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  2. DRFP

    DRFP Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you check the advanced settings? I have no idea why but sometimes they do not agree with the standard and they get changed?

    No one has been able to answer me on this.
     
    DRFP, Nov 12, 2009
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  3. lucirz

    lucirz Notebook Consultant

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    ok its just my battery...windows xp shows 55% left but went i went to the bios, it showed i had like 5% left. bios > windows so im trusting the bios :D. idk why windows is showing the incorrect % though. windows xp btw
     
    lucirz, Nov 13, 2009
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