Replacement Battery

The primary advantage of a laptop is that it allows the user to bring her computer with her wherever she goes, possibly bringing Internet access as well. However, as computers become more compact and faster, one thing seems to stay constant. The computer will more than likely outlast the laptop battery that powers it. If the battery dies, then the computer isn’t as useful, because it will need to be plugged in at all times in order to function. The way to solve this is to purchase a new battery for the laptop.

Instructions

1 Look at the bottom of your laptop and write down the laptop’s model number and brand. Then remove the battery from its slot and write down the model number of the battery itself and the type such as lithium-ion or nickel metal hydride. The documents that came with the computer, such as the invoice, warranty card or information document, might provide other useful information such as an order number and/or customer number and proof and time of purchase.

2 Check the website of the company that made your computer. If your dell inspiron 1520 battery died before its time, or is still under warranty, you might be able to get a new battery free direct from the manufacturer. If you can’t order it online, locate the company’s customer service phone number and call.

3 Go to the store from which you purchased the computer. Tell the store clerk the information about the computer and see if the store sells replacement batteries. If you purchased an extended warranty plan, it might cover a replacement inspiron 1564 battery.

4 Go to a computer service business with the information about your computer. The clerk or technician might be able to locate one for you or have them in stock.

5 Stores that specialize in electronic services or batteries such as Radio Shack, Batteries Plus or Interstate Batteries might have your laptop battery as well. You can also find some battery companies online.

The battery in a laptop, will usually last anywhere from 18 to 36 months. This span is the expected life of a battery with no extra steps taken by the user. But if you take a little extra time and care of your power source, you might be able to extend the life of your laptop battery or at the very least, improve the performance of the day to day life of about battery.

1 If you are not going to use the laptop for several days, take the vostro 1200 battery out of the computer.

2 Keep the laptop and the battery in a comfortable temperature. Exposure to high heat or extreme cold can damage the battery; not to mention the laptop.

3 Once a month, allow the battery to drain completely. Make sure you have saved all your work and leave no programs open while draining the battery.

4 Be sure to have the power adapter plugged into a surge protector, not just a wall outlet.

5 Do not constantly leave the power adapter plugged in. When the adapter is plugged in, the sony vgp-bps21 battery is constantly being charged. This is taxing on the battery’s life span.

he AC adapter on your HP laptop is used to charge the laptop battery. It is important that you know how to troubleshoot problems with the laptop AC adapter so it does not hinder your everyday computing. If you are experiencing problems with the device, there are several ways to troubleshoot the issue before you decide it is time to replace the AC power adapter with a new one.

Instructions

* 1 Connect the hp pavilion dv6000 adapter to the power port of your laptop and plug the other end into a working power outlet. Turn on your laptop. Notice the battery icon in your “system tray,” in the lower right corner of your desktop. If the icon has the appearance of a power cord, the AC adapter is working properly and no further troubleshooting is required. If the battery icon resembles a hp pavilion dv9000 battery, the battery is not charging. Go on to the next step.

* 2 Turn off the laptop and wait for it to shut down. Disconnect the AC adapter from the laptop and the power outlet. Open the battery cover on the laptop and remove the battery from its compartment. Reconnect the AC adapter to the power port on your laptop and plug the other end into a working power outlet. Press the power button on the laptop and see if the laptop starts normally. If it does not start, the AC adapter is malfunctioning. If it does start, the problem may be with the laptop battery and not the adapter.

* 3 Replace the power cord on the hp AC adapter with another power cord, if you have one. Reconnect the adapter to the laptop and see if it is working with the new power cord. If it is working, there was a problem with the power cord. If it is not working, the HP PPP012L adapter needs to be replaced.

Tips & Warnings

* It is not unusual for the AC adapter to feel rather warm to the touch, especially after it has been in use for several hours.

* Using an AC power adapter that is not compatible with your laptop can damage the hp pavilion dv5 battery. For example, if you are using a power adapter that does not have enough voltage to run the laptop, or if it passes too much current for a small laptop, an error message may appear on your screen. Although an incompatible adapter may work with your computer, continuing to use it may damage your laptop
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Greetings all, I’d like to share with you an interesting tidbit of information that I ran across recently. I have several customers that have purchased and been very happy with the Acer Aspire series of Netbooks. I liked them so much I even got one for myself, and I too am very pleased with this little dynamo. I’ll post a review later maybe, it really is a great machine. Especially considering the price, but now I will get back to the topic at hand.

One of these customers suddenly had a problem with the acer laptop battery not charging. In fact, the battery was non-existant, it wouldn’t charge or give an error light or really … anything. Now, the little netbook ran fine when plugged into the acer AC adapter, so that ruled that out as being bad. The logical assumption of course was that this customer simply had a dud for a battery. You know, a bad cell, and open connection, whatever it is it rendered the battery useless much quicker than it should have.

Here’s the neat part of this and the reason for this post. Before contacting Acer to get a replacement laptop battery, I did some research just to be thorough and also to get options for replacement batteries in case a longer life acer as07b41 battery was desired. What I found was that many other folk out there in the great wide open Internet were having similar problems. Again, initial thought was a run on bad batteries. However, as I read more, it seemed that a bug in the netbook firmware had cropped up and would cause the BIOS to stop recognizing the fact that there was a battery in the machine at all. Well now, isn’t that interesting?!

The information I got specifically referenced netbooks running on firmware (BIOS) versions 3305, and then suggested upgrading to the (at that time) latest version of 3309. I check the netbook that was in for service with the battery problem and found that it was actually on version 3301(!), so I upgraded to the latest version as of yesterday which was 3310. Now, here is where I have to be honest with all you folk and tell you that in my case, this did not fix the problem. I was really hopeful that it would, but no dice. Why am I posting this then, if it didn’ t work? Good question! In my research, among the forum posts and websites and such that talked of performing these BOIS updates for this problem, the majority of the folk reported success with the procedure. I’d say probably 75% to 80% had the update fix the acer laptop battery problem after all, and did not have to purchase (or submit for warranty and wait for) a new acer aspire one battery.

All this being said, I am going to file this tidbit away for future reference. If I run across this problem again, be it with my own netbook or another customer unit, this is a fast and easy thing to try, and if it solves the problem even half the time it will be worth it. Now, you know about it too so you can add this to your kit for when you run across this problem too. You never know, it might save you some time and buckage some day. Enjoy!
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Condition the battery When you purchase your Dell Inspiron Laptop Batteries, charge the Dell battery to 100 percent, discharge it completely, and then fully charge it to 100 percent again to help the laptop battery computer dell laptop remember exactly how much electrical charge it can hold. From then on, you’ll never need to completely discharge the dell vostro 1310 battery again, but always make sure when charging it that you let it reach 100 percent. DeHoop told us to “remember to plug in the dell AC adapter (or dock/port replicator) whenever you get a chance. Most notebooks will recharge quickly.” Salinas had another tip for your batteries: “Keep them cool. Exposure to high temperatures can be a dell xps m1530 battery ‘s worst enemy,” he said.

Decrease hard drive activity To minimize the frequency with which your hard disk has to spin up to access data, Salinas recommended defragmenting your hard drive regularly. This optimizes the placement of data on the drive so that it can be found more quickly. You can find the Disk Degfragmenter in the Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools menu. Beyond that, he advised optimizing Windows’ paging file, which is an area of the hard drive that serves as virtual memory whenever your RAM is full. To change it, go to the Control Panel and click through System/Advanced/Performance Settings/Advanced/Virtual Memory Change and set both the initial and maximum paging file size to 1.5 times the capacity of the installed memory.

Disable startup items Startup items load into memory every time Windows boots up, which causes other open applications to spill over into virtual memory and adds to the CPU load. You can disable the startup options by opening the associated programs and going to the Options or Preferences menu. You can also remove them from the Start/Programs/Startup folder or by clicking Start/Run, entering C:MSCONFIG, and clicking OK. Select the Startup tab and clear the checkbox beside any unnecessary background items, like qttask (QuickTime).

Don’t use any external devices. USB and PC-Cards (aka PC-MCIA) use your dell xps m1330 battery to function, even when you aren’t using them! Have an EVDO card or maybe a USB mouse? Remove them if you can. Even a memory card reader in your PC-MCIA slot uses power just by being in there. The effect varies based on the type of device, but even a few minutes here and there (as you’ll see) add up significantly.

Power down the display “You can often yield up to ten minutes of dell laptop battery life per level of brightness lowered,” said Salinas. DeHoop added that lowering the brightness “may give you as much as an extra hour of runtime.” In addition, lowering the screen resolution and color depth decreases the workload on the GPU, thus extending the battery runtime. You can change these by going to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Display and clicking the Settings tab. Disabling extra features like ClearType fonts and fade effects will cut down on the CPU’s power consumption. You can find these in the Control Panel under System/Advanced/Performance Settings/Visual Effects.

Single-task, not multi-task. The more you are doing at the same time with your PC, the more memory and CPU usage increases. Both of which directly use up dell inspiron 1525 battery. Close any applications you aren’t using, even the small ones. When doing some experimentation, I found it more efficient to run a single application at a time, then close it and open a new one when ready to move on. While your hard drive uses the battery too, if you are doing anything ‘productive’ you are probably hitting the drive on a regular (even if infrequent) basis anyway.

Turn off unused devices Both of our gurus mentioned disabling unused devices. Many new notebooks provide a hard-wired On/Off switch for the Wi-Fi radio for this reason. Beyond that, you should go to the Control Panel, select System/Hardware/Device Manager, and disable the Ethernet adapter, infrared transceiver, and Bluetooth radio (if your notebook has one). It was designed for mobile devices, but having Bluetooth enabled actually consumes quite a bit of power.

Keep it cool. You can take a page out of the extreme gamer’s handbooks, and have your system perform more optimally by keeping it cool. Make sure your air vents (inflow and outflow) aren’t blocked by anything, which often occurs by poorly positioning your notebook on your lap (which is known to have some other side-effects too, by the way). Heavy CPU and memory use all contribute to heat as well, hence my comment on multi-tasking above.

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Dell Inspiron 1545 Battery Usage Tips
1. New dell inspiron 1545 battery pack must be fully charged before use.
2. New replacement Dell laptop battery pack needs to be fully charged and discharged (cycled) a few times before it can condition to full capacity.
3. Rechargeable dell inspiron 1545 laptop batteries undergo self-discharging when left unused. Always store a battery pack in a fully charged stage for storage.
4. Fully drain and fully recharge your dell  laptop battery pack every few month.
5. Turn down the LCD brightness of your portable device.
6. Use built-in power management on your portable device.
7. Turn off LCD or other unnecessary accessories when not in use.
8. Set screen saver blank to 1 to 2 minutes of your dell inspiron 1545 notebook.
9. Add more RAM if you have extra RAM expansion slot, it will reduce the usage of hard drive and it is power exhaustive.
10. Close unused software in your notebook.
11. Remove unused PC Cards or USB devices from your notebook.
12. Don’t watch DVD or play graphics intensive video games.
13. Don’t short circuit terminal or store your laptop battery pack with metal parts.
14. Don’t drop or mutilate the dell battery pack.
15. Don’t expose to moisture or water.
16. It is normal to get warm when charging or normal use. If it is getting too hot, there may be a problem with the device and qualified personnel should check it.

Customer review:

I don’t normally write reviews, but I wanted to help others out that might be having the same doubts as me. I was VERY nervous buying a battery that was not from Dell. I went back and forth for some time. The same type of battery from Dell is three times the price of this one, so I figured I would at least give the cheaper one a try. I am thrilled with how well it works! Even if I have to replace it every year, that is better than paying for the Dell inspiron 1545 battery. I had my laptop barely a year when I started getting the notice that my battery life was fading. I would definitely buy from this company again. The shipping was reasonable and fast, and the battery works great!