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Windows 7, New battery, "replace battery" icon

Freshgeardude

Freshgeardude

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So I have a eee pc 1000h and after around 2 years of heavy usage, the original battery only holds around 50% of its original charge.


I decided to buy a new battery and decided on

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...A2ZML8YGZ8CQBA

the "hammerhead" one.

I let it charge up to full first.

well, I first booted up ubuntu to check the capacity and its giving me a ridiculous max charge I believe around 530 Whr (i forget the units, but its NOT mAh)

the battery is holding 97 Whrs now, which is like 4 times greater than what my original battery is holding now, 2 times the original battery capacity. (6600 mAh vs 12000 mAh)

Well it looks like there is a reading error. ubuntu is flashing that i need to replace the battery.

Now comes, windows 7. the REAL problem. I use win 7 90% of the time and it is giving me the same flashing item telling me that I need to replace my battery.

It is a red x on the draining battery icon.


I cant figure a way (even googled it) to get rid of the error message. I want to see the how long the battery is calculated to last. This error isnt letting me see that.


Now I am pretty sure the battery is working at its new capacity. I am running a stress test to drain the battery. 100% cpu load. its been 3 hours and its at 50% which is very good.



is there any way to trick the sensor to ignoring the warning? a workaround, such as a battery icon/ hide stock icon combo?

I would like it to look the same as possible.



Thanks in advance!


EDIT: UPDATE:

i decided to return the battery. I dont want to deal with these problems
 
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Not sure if this helps, but this is all I could find on a short search:

To see if your battery problems are likely to come from this conflict between Windows 7 and your hardware run the powercfg -energy command from a command prompt. If the result is that Windows was unable to determine the battery’s capacity, sooner or later you will see the misleading error messages or have the laptop shutdown prematurely.

For now, the best solution seems to be a workaround. First, get to an administrative command prompt. Do this by either opening a cmd character-based session and pressing ctrl+shift+enter or from Start go to All Programs -> Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select “Run as Administrator.”

Once there, run the following command: powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_BATTERY BATACTIONCRIT 0. This changes the current power scheme so that even when Windows 7 thinks the battery is almost out of power, it won’t shut down the PC. Of course, if your battery really is close to running out of juice, you may find yourself trying to type on a suddenly dead laptop.
 
Arik5405 said:
Not sure if this helps, but this is all I could find on a short search:

To see if your battery problems are likely to come from this conflict between Windows 7 and your hardware run the powercfg -energy command from a command prompt. If the result is that Windows was unable to determine the battery’s capacity, sooner or later you will see the misleading error messages or have the laptop shutdown prematurely.

For now, the best solution seems to be a workaround. First, get to an administrative command prompt. Do this by either opening a cmd character-based session and pressing ctrl+shift+enter or from Start go to All Programs -> Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select “Run as Administrator.”

Once there, run the following command: powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_BATTERY BATACTIONCRIT 0. This changes the current power scheme so that even when Windows 7 thinks the battery is almost out of power, it won’t shut down the PC. Of course, if your battery really is close to running out of juice, you may find yourself trying to type on a suddenly dead laptop.
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hmm yea, I tried that already but it doesnt seem to fix it.

I think the battery might be messed up though. I let it drain to 0 and recharged it up. before it was at 17.7% of the original capacity, now its at 15.4%. I think the battery might actually be bad. I am going to drain it to 0 again and see, if when I charge it, if I will get a large drop again. If so, then the battery is bad. if not, perhaps the battery needed to calibrate
 
If you google for this, it's a pretty nasty problem. If Arik's suggestions didn't help, check with on your EEE manufacturer's support site for a BIOS update. It is possible that your battery is screwed though.
 
yea, i looked up all of that already. 🙁

laptop has been up to date with the bios too... looks like the last released was back in 09 which gave official win 7 support.


I just ran a battery test though. I am going to post a screen shot in a minute
 
ok so here is the battery test graph.

battery.png



at 35% you can see it goes straight down.

it lasts 3 hours on full load (test does that)


Could this be a calibration problem with windows? or is the battery fucked?


I am charging the laptop while on windows right now to see if that will do anything
 
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