Little help with 12 Cell battery

Hey guys, I just purchased a 12 Cell battery for my DV2000, and i just wanted to make sure that everything seemed accurate. In rightmarkcpu clock utility it says the design capacity is 95050 mWh but the fully charged capacity is 91595 mwh, is this right? For those who have a 12 cell what does your designed and fully capacity read?

 

This is strange....

My battery says its at 96% when unplugged but when I plug it the socket is says the battery is at 100% immediately. It jumps to 100% right away, in my other 6 cell battery it would say something like 85% and charging (when its plugged in) is this normal?

 

You need to calibrate your battery; prevent windows from hibernating at 2% battery, then run it all the way dry.

After that, plug + charge, and your problems should be solved.

 

I didn't know that!?
I noticed that when the battery gets very low, it does hibernated, which is kind of handy so you don't lose any work your doing at the time. It saved my neck one time as I didn't realize that I forgot to turn on the wall switch and was running on battery and in the middle of a important photoshop job it went into hibernate! I was cussin' thinking that I had lost two hours of work and after I turned on the wall switch, found that my work was still there.

BTW, how does one calibrate their battery?

 

Sorry; I wasn't completely clear. You calibrate by draining your battery down to 0%. :d

 

Okay then, how do you prevent windows from hibernating at 2% so that you can run it completely dry? Bring it out of hibernation while unplugged?

 

http://h20239.www2.hp.com/techcenter/battery/Battery_max.htm

 

Thanks! Excellent link. I bookmarked it.