battery

Hi, We have a Dell laptop connected with cabled network/internet. When the laptop goes on low battery, the network card is disabled. So when you manually enable the network card again, everything works fine. But the strange thing is that all the options in power management (allow computer to...

I was installing win7 on my laptop. But a problem appeared that the installation is unsuccessful and it will be rollback to the previous version. But at that time, it was out of battery and the rollback was unsuccessful too. And now my laptop can not be started up. What should i do? Please help...

I really hope someone can help me and any constructive advice will be very much appreciated (and heeded). My laptop crashes four or five times a day and it's driving me nuts. It never crashes when I'm using it but if I leave it for a period of time ranging from 2mins to 3hrs then it freezes. The...

I want to use Skype on my netbook with the lid closed and need help with appropriate settings: 1) I set closing the lid when on battery to do nothing. (My netbook is in my briefcase and the lid must stay closed) 2) Do I need to set sleep settings? I'm fine with it going to sleep if Skype will...

Hi, I have a toshiba satellite a350-13d laptop with windows 7 32 bit installed on it. All of a sudden, my brightness slider is gone, while it was there before when I clicked the battery in the bottom right corner and chose "change screen brightness" or something alike (I have the Dutch version...

Hi! I just got myself a toshiba laptop which came with a Windows 7. While exploring I noticed that while running on battery power, and I try to restart my system it just shuts down. But when I press the power button it turn on again. I tried to restart again now with the power plugged in and it...

My laptop was charging all night - I even made sure it was plugged in and the blue light was on. It stayed at 3%. Now it's at 0% and it's plugged in. It says that it's plugged in but not charging, but how do I get it so it does charge?

yea this sounds like a common "change your power settings" issue, but i have all the settings for plugged in and battery mode to NEVER do anything...and for some reason, recently, the past 2 days or so, the monitor keeps turning off on this laptop when im not using it after a few minutes.. am...

About three days ago my Windows 7 told me I need to consider replacing my laptops battery. "There is a problem with your battery, so your computer might shut down suddenly". I did the energy report thing and it said my battery's full charge was 37%. The weird thing is, overnight my laptop...

UK firm announces battery breakthrough Silicon anode boosts Li-ion capacity By Link Removed - Invalid URL Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 12:18 A LITTLE-KNOWN BRITISH COMPANY has developed a silicon anode that it says can increase the capacity of a Lithium-ion battery by up to 30 per cent...

While downloading Windows 7, my laptop ran out of battery. When I rebooted, it told me I had to restart, so I did, but when it was done, it came to the same screen again and told me to restart again. Now I can't get on to my computer. What should I do?

My computer wakes every night at around 4am. In the event viewer, the reason is "S4 Doze to Hibernation". I cannot figure out how to force the computer to stay in sleep mode. I do, however, want the computer to allow hibernation on battery, so disabling hibernational all together won't work.

I have a Dell M6400 Laptop. The spec is quite hefty at Q9300 Quad Code 2.53 Ghz, 8GB Ram, 1GB Nvidia FX 3700M Video. I am running Windows 7, and have recently bought 2 new games, DragonAge, and Modern Warfare 2. When on Battery Power I can run both games in full 1920x1200. The run...

I am trying to create a Device Stage for my cell phone that is not supported. I only want basic features but would love free space and battery information if possible. I have followed tutorials and everything I can find from Microsoft as well as an old tutorial I found online but I am unable to...

Yesterday was the first time that I tried to use my laptop with Windows 7 on battery. I upgraded 7 from vista as soon as it was available. I got it down to 49% but then when I plugged it back in to charge, it wouldn't charge. It would simply say that it's plugged in and not charging. I know in...

My apologies if this has been posted elsewhere; if so, I hope someone will point me in the direction of the current thread. Since upgrading from Vista HP, I'm getting "consider replacing your battery" and "There is a problem with your battery, so your computer might shut down suddenly" messages...

hi, i just installed 7 and im very impressed however my laptop randomly turns off!!! its getting frustrating! the battery icon says i need to change my battery but i only did this 6 weeks ago and worked fine on vista if any1 has any ideas how to fix this i would be grateful thanks!!

Hi. New to the forums, and had an interesting problem I hope you all can help me with. First off System Specs: Laptop: Dell Precision M4300 OS: Windows 7 RC 64 Bit CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.20 GHz Display: NVidia Quadro FX 360M Ram: 4 GHz (don't know clock cycles) Alright, now the...

I have a Lenovo G530. Win 7 runs great on it, but there is no provision in the POWER SETTINGS to dim the display while on batteries. The dimming buttons on the keyboard don't work either. I downloaded and installed all the Lenovo drivers (display, chipset, etc). Am I missing a driver...

Hello, Today I installed Power4Gear software for my Asus laptop on Win7. Everything would be OK, but the button that changes it's modes(such as "High performance" or "Battery saving") is not working. Does anybody have any ideas about this problem? By the way, I installed all ATK drivers and...