Battery monitoring software for XP, ie. battery HEALTH

[artshark]

Hey guys. I am looking for some freeware for XP that will not show me the % remaining of my battery, as XP does that for me, but will tell me how many cycles my battery has been through, and most importantly, remaining total capacity of the battery (how healthy the battery is) in terms of mAh. Now, I knew the name of a OS X app that does this and even heard of a windows app, but forgot both. can anyone help?
Thanks!
Art

 

[GvidoR]

Are you thinking of Battery Health Monitor or Coconut Battery ?

 

[artshark]

yes!
like coconut batter, exactly

 

[jackluo923]

mobile meter is another good one

 

[artshark]

thanks!

 

[jeanphillipe]

Notebook Hardware control its a good software and the battery mater its good one

 

[ronime]

I use NoteBook BatteryInfo from http://www.batteryinfo.de.vu/

I'm not sure that the embedded controllers in AA1 batteries actually record the cycle count.

 

[darenm]

BatteryBar is Awesome Freeware:
http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/

 

[mazpro]

BatteryBar is Awesome Freeware:
http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/

Great, thanks for that link. I was looking for something just like that.

 

[Ranger Wolf]

I use a amazing program called Notebook Hardware Control. i have it showing my battery health, battery time left, CPU temp, HDD temp, even the speed that my Atom is is at for second to second. Amazingly, you can even bring the CPU speed down to about 200MHz to save tons of battery life!!

 

[jackluo923]

I use a amazing program called Notebook Hardware Control. i have it showing my battery health, battery time left, CPU temp, HDD temp, even the speed that my Atom is is at for second to second. Amazingly, you can even bring the CPU speed down to about 200MHz to save tons of battery life!!

It's not yet possible to underclock the CPU to 200mhz on AAO.

 

[artshark]

someone remind me again why'd you want to? With XP, mine is not exactly a speed demon at the stock 1600

 

[Ranger Wolf]

I use a amazing program called Notebook Hardware Control. i have it showing my battery health, battery time left, CPU temp, HDD temp, even the speed that my Atom is is at for second to second. Amazingly, you can even bring the CPU speed down to about 200MHz to save tons of battery life!!

It's not yet possible to underclock the CPU to 200mhz on AAO.

And i Qoute from the program

The Clock Modulation can be used to reduce the power consumption of the processor.

Note that clock modulation adds wait states to reduce the clock internally. The external CPU clock remains the same, but the internal CPU clock will be reduced and so power consumption and performance will be reduced

and it gives you several choices for processor speed. i have verified that it does work too

you can set it so it only activates a speed on battery or even on ac. it gives you tons of options in this program. i really would call it an all in one stop for hardware information in ur taskbar.

 

[jackluo923]

[quote="Ranger Wolf":33r98dl1]I use a amazing program called Notebook Hardware Control. i have it showing my battery health, battery time left, CPU temp, HDD temp, even the speed that my Atom is is at for second to second. Amazingly, you can even bring the CPU speed down to about 200MHz to save tons of battery life!!

It's not yet possible to underclock the CPU to 200mhz on AAO.

And i Qoute from the program

The Clock Modulation can be used to reduce the power consumption of the processor.

Note that clock modulation adds wait states to reduce the clock internally. The external CPU clock remains the same, but the internal CPU clock will be reduced and so power consumption and performance will be reduced

and it gives you several choices for processor speed. i have verified that it does work too

you can set it so it only activates a speed on battery or even on ac. it gives you tons of options in this program. i really would call it an all in one stop for hardware information in ur taskbar.[/quote:33r98dl1]

The CPU speed = the "external" clock btw.
Anyways.. i used to use NHC too.

Here's the name and serial number that i'm no longer using for NHC pro 2.06
Name: Ythan Burstein
Serial: 4219A9C8D151-9018FF98E581-FFE03F4A258B-107FFE9868DA

 

[Ranger Wolf]

wow hey thanks for the information :shock: