What happened to my battery? and my audio too

Discussion in 'Laptop Hardware' started by judeh101, Sep 14, 2008.

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    judeh101

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    hey guys, seems like there is a problem either with bad acpi coding or really a bad battery.
    I have only owned this laptop for almost 2 weeks now, and battery wear level is 9 percent, and this is totally impossible, and this is badly affecting my battery usability, and when it is 0%, the laptop still lasts at least 40 minutes longer, guys know what the problem was?

    now, as for the audio, my microphone skips every so often or stops working every so often, and audio clicks every once in a while, do you guys know what the problem is? tried updating the audio driver, and made the problem even worse.
     
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    Lithium Ion batteries have an electronic circuit that guestimates how much life it has left (based on charge/discharge current, voltage, etc.). If you recharge the battery ebfore it is empty, many times in a row, the calibration is lost.
    So what you have to do is let the laptop run until the battery dies, then fully recharge it.
     
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    Thanks dude, I did that too. Any more solutions?
     
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    If you start up a intensive game while the meter shows 45 min left.
    Once the game is up and runnig it drops down to 30min.
    After playing 1-4 min and you close the game after, the meter shows 35-40 min left aka going back up.
    Thats due to avg power usage of the laptop at that point.
     
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    ok, now I am more concerned over my audio than my batteries.
    The audio skips and sounds awful at times with slight crackle, can I blame the Atom for this? or should I blame the audio controller for this problem.
     
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    for audio try to install again audio driver with the OLD one

    the NEWEST audio driver make the sound choopy n BAD sound
     
    cheungpakwan, Sep 16, 2008
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