Perhaps your laptop battery is not lasting quite as long as it used to and you’re not quite sure what the problem is with your battery. There could be several causes as to why your battery isn’t lasting as long as it used to and holding a charge. Usage habit could be one of the reasons why your battery isn’t hold charge very long.
Physical devices on your laptop that you use, which requires using electricity, will also cause your battery run time to not last very long. The physical devices that are some of the problems with your battery’s charge to be depleted are the hard drive, CD-ROM and the floppy drive. There are probably some processes that you are using on your laptop that cause your physical memory to become exhausted in your system. The system will change to the virtual memory to finish the process you are in the middle of completing. The virtual memory is created to increase the system memory resources by devising a memory swap file on the hard drive and transferring the needed data between the hard drive and the physical memory.
The hard drive uses plenty of electricity, the virtual memory will end up using quite a bit of electricity because it has to use the hard drive when it is producing the virtual memory. The audio and display devices can be another factor in excessive use of electricity. You can try to turn down the display screen and it will not be as bright, but it may help lessen the amount of electricity you are using. There are video devices that use graphic programs that also use quite a bit of electricity as well. Video software can also deplete your battery because it uses the virtual memory, computation and calculations.
Battery memory is also a reason why your laptop battery is not lasting quite as long as it used to last. Battery memory is where the battery actually becomes self taught to run on less time than what it really needs to run on to be effective. An example of this is perhaps you only use the laptop on battery for an hour and plug it up to recharge, the battery will become adapted to be functional for only an hour before it is tired and ready to give up.
There are some things that need to be done in order to correct your battery memory problems. Start of by completely draining your battery and then recharge it. Your second step will be to go to your Window Control Panel and select power, then turn of your Power Management. Now you’re ready to go into your BIOS and check if there is a power management setting there, if there is, you will need to turn it off as well. Use your Escape key to return to the top level menu. Now select Save settings and then Exit. Unplug your computer, then turn the computer on again and let it run until it has completely used up all the electricity.
Once you have completed these steps, charge the battery for twelve hours. After charging for twelve hours, use the computer again until the power is dead and you will need to charge the battery again for twelve more hours. Repeat these steps four times and this should take care of the problem and return the computer back to its original power management settings. It is recommended that the battery should be used once every two weeks and you should also keep the battery in the system so that the AC adapter will keep the battery charged all the time and this helps the battery. In addition, if the battery is not going to be used for more than two weeks, you should completely discharge the battery and store it at room temperature to prevent damage.
