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    Compaq Presario F700 & Windows 7 bad battery performance

    Discussion in 'HP' started by lobotiger, Jan 11, 2010.

  1. lobotiger

    lobotiger Newbie

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    Hi everyone, not sure if this is the right place to ask questions about Windows 7 and this laptop but I'm hoping someone can help me out.

    I recently upgraded my wife's laptop from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate and almost everything works fine on it. The one sticking point through has been the battery behaving oddly in Win7. The first thing is that the battery icon has a red X on it and when you hover over it it states that I should consider replacing my battery. When the laptop runs unplugged, it literally lasts 20 minutes before it powers itself off. This is a huge difference when it would last over 2 hours in Vista just before the upgrade.

    I'm wondering if there are specific drivers I should install or downgrade even though everything in Device Manager no longer has any yellow exclamation marks (I had to install some drivers after installing Win7). FYI, this laptop is about 1.5 years old.

    If I can't find a solution to the low battery performance, I may have to revert her laptop back to Vista which would totally negate the reason for buying Win7 in the first place for her machine.

    Thanks in advance for any tips.

    LoboTiger
     
    lobotiger, Jan 11, 2010
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    lobotiger Newbie

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    No one has any ideas?

    LoboTiger
     
    lobotiger, Jan 21, 2010
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  3. Th3_uN1Qu3

    Th3_uN1Qu3 Notebook Deity

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    If you get that warning then the battery is broken. 1.5 years is already quite a bit for a battery.

    As to why it broke after installing Win7, it's just a coincidence. I get the same message on my dv9700 but not every time, and my battery still lasts 2-2.5 hours, but it should've lasted 5, it's got less than half capacity left.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Jan 22, 2010
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