Laptop Battery Time Remaining

[Tony Marsillo]

I picked up a used Gateway Solo 2550 laptop. It had no hard drive or
battery. I first got a new hard drive and loaded Win XP Pro. It seems to run
very well, it has a PIII 600 MHz processor and 288 Meg of RAM. I bought a
new after market battery for it after the operting system was loaded, and
everything works well except the time remaining icon on the task bar. The
percent remaining charge looks correct, but the time remaining starts at 4
min, at 98 % charge and goes down from there.

I ran the Gateway battery learning utility that runs in dos, but it does not
affect windows. Is there something that needs to be done in "power options"
to display the time remaining accurately.

Thanks
Tony

 

[Malke]

I picked up a used Gateway Solo 2550 laptop. It had no hard drive or
battery. I first got a new hard drive and loaded Win XP Pro. It seems
to run very well, it has a PIII 600 MHz processor and 288 Meg of RAM.
I bought a new after market battery for it after the operting system
was loaded, and everything works well except the time remaining icon
on the task bar. The percent remaining charge looks correct, but the
time remaining starts at 4 min, at 98 % charge and goes down from
there.

I ran the Gateway battery learning utility that runs in dos, but it
does not affect windows. Is there something that needs to be done in
"power options" to display the time remaining accurately.

Thanks
Tony

Go to Gateway's support site for that particular model laptop and
download any drivers and software available. There should be some sort
of power management software.

Malke

 

[Tony Marsillo]

Malke,
I did run the Gateway battery learning utility I found at there web site,
but I think that is for the battery gauge on the small LCD status display on
the cover.

I was wondering , since I loaded the OS without the battery installed, that
is why the time remaining is not being reported correctly.

Thanks,
Tony