New battery with 31% wear

Hi, I bough an HP notebook 2 days ago (DV6755US) with a 6 cell battery. Running everest, I found out that the battery is already 32% wear .
I just charged/discharged the battery 2 times in these 2 days, so it's impossible it wore 32% in a small period. Actually my doubt is: Is the information that everest provides trustworthy? A friend of mine told me that de design capacity showed on everest (88800 mWh) isn't correct for a 6 cell battery, is his information right?. How can I solve this problem?



Thanks

 

i believe this is just an inaccurate reading. I had the same thing when i bought mine but I used a different program (don't recall the name). I did contact HP on the issue and they couldn't say for sure that it was in fact just the program so they just replaced the battery and the new they sent was the same.

 

88800 mWh would match a 12 cell battery, not a 6 cell. I haven't seen accurate readings since the zv5000 days. HP has a battery health check program. It's annoyingly ambiguous but it's the only thing that works that I know of.

 

That thing or RMClock's battery check doesn't always work. The regular battery pack for mine 10.8v 4Ahr reads something like 58Wh with design capacity of 88.8Wh.

The 12 cell reads 88.8Wh design capacity with available capacity of 112Wh or something.

You need to download this software to check HP batteries accurately.
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp32001-32500/sp32299.exe

 

HP Battery checker didn't work
The battery IS properly inserted and, as HP website recommends, the battery was charging while running the program, but I think it doesnt work on vista



and I can't even uninstall the software, it gets an error:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/6948/erroroq6.jpg

What could it be? The battery is inserted and when I unplug the AC power adapter the notebook runs normally.