battery

I m facing strange problem .. My laptop won't turn on when I press power button .. No fanspeed ,no power Led , no battery sign ,like dead ... But when I insert Charger pin and press power button ,... Only fan ,power led , battery led starts... But blank display .. !! I tried everything...

I have power settings which make computer go to hibernation on reaching critical battery level, and my critical battery level is set to 30% for on battery. Since yesterday, my PC won't go to hibernation on reaching 30%, instead there is a red crosshair which keeps blinking on the battery...

I've been running Win10 on my (old) laptop for about 6 months now. In the last few months I've noticed some problems with power management. 90%+ of the time the laptop is on my desk, plugged in. (Which I know is not ideal for battery life.) But when it's unplugged, sometimes it has issues. *...

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, L55 series, Windows 10 Anniversary OS. This laptop, and my previous Toshiba, stops battery charging at 80%. I imagine this promotes battery longevity. That being the case, is it desirable to regularly run on battery only until it's almost run down, or does that...

So my computer was downloading the newest windows update and I left it, alone for a few hours but it ran out of charge before it finished updating and now when I try to turn it on, even when I plug the charger in(which works) it dies. Please help

I have a 3 year old core 2 duo based laptop by Lenovo. windows 8.1 works perfectly well in the 4 GB ram system. The only issue i am facing is about the battery notification. Whenever I charges the laptop, it shows charging but the level doesn't seem to change even after charging for hours. I...

Hello. I have a HP Pro 608 tablet that has many bugs. 1. Most annoying is that the battery icon at the taskbar indicates that the tablet is always plugged. If I disconnect the power adapter, no change with the icon occurs plus there's no change in the screen brightness even if I set it to lower...

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have a Dell XPS L501X laptop that freezes on start up if plugged in but NOT when running on the battery. My husband ran a bunch of tests, discovered hard drive was failing. Bought a new SATA solid state hard drive and bought a new windows 7 install and...

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Hello all I am using a HP paviliion dv6 laptop with Win7 Home premium + SP1 on it. I, sometimes get low batter 601 alert while starting the system, even before windows starts.. Had not seen this error for last 2-3 months, just a while ago, my system, suddenly went to hibernate, while i was...

I've been having some issues with my battery. I have a Sager X8100 gaming laptop. Specs are i7 Q840, dual Nvidia 285m in SLI, 8gbs RAM, windows 7 64 bit. Its a fairly old rig.. 2009 or 2010 not sure which. I bought it used in 2012. Had a 1 year warranty. I noticed the battery wouldn't keep it...

So long story short, my hard drive died on me so I installed a 1T SSD and got it up and running again. Couple days later it overheated twice. I wasn't doing anything that would require much processing. I only had a few tabs open in Fire Fox. The computer locked up and made a terrible noise from...

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Hi all, new to this forum, i just got a surface 3, love it. I just upgraded it to windows 10 from windows 8. this update sucks, battery life is quarter of what it was. When i unplugged it this morning it was at 100%, it sat for 2 hours without being used and the battery dropped to 75%. Anybody...

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I have a problem where my battery icon won't show up in the taskbar, and I went to customize the taskbar, then went to turn system icons on and off, but the battery option was gray, and I could not alter it. Please Help!

Hi everyone, Today we are rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10581 to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring. We’ve fixed the bug preventing upgrades from earlier builds. So if you stayed on Build 10536 or if you flashed back to Windows Phone 8.1 and then installed 10549 or 10572...