"Consider Replacing Your Battery"

logicearth said:

Deki said:

Bullshit !
"Consider your battery" is nothing more then 1 stupid bug which microsoft didnt solved.
How to solve this problem ? Simple, just install Vista Basic as i did and after that reinstall on Windows 7 64 bit.
Problem solved.

You think it is solved? You think that because Windows Vista does not show you this message? Sorry to burst your bubble but Windows Vista doesn't show this message because it was a new feature in Windows 7. If the hardware says the battery is coming to the end of its life, and Windows 7 only repeats this information. How is that a bug? If the battery is not failing like Windows 7 says, then there is a problem with the hardware, the HARDWARE.

I have no problems anymore with battery, windows 7 work fine now, and battery life is totaly same like b4.
And its bug 100% .

my computer crashed and when it rebooted it was showing the error message. the computer is just over a year old

the solution to this problem is simply updating ur drivers as well as windows update ,,,,,,,,,,this is what i did now i dont have the "replace batttery message"

you can drainage your battery power until the computer can't start...make sure the battery is empty..ang plug in the adapter and ON the computer...i have try this and its working..i have try it 5 minute ago..and i register this forum to share what i found..gudluck..:)

Frostbite said:

You can see the capacity of your battery by doing the following
Open a Administrator command prompt and type

powercfg -energy -output c:\energy-report.html

let it run then open the energy-report.html report. Look for a section called Battery:Battery Information near the bottom.
It shows Design Capacity and Last Full Charge which gives you an idea of how worn the battery is. Also check the errors section for anything about the battery.

Mine shows Design Capacity 63360 (which is 14.4v * 4400 mAH for my battery)
Last Full Charge is 59450

i tried this,. and says:
Battery:Last Full Charge (%)
The battery stored less than 40% of the Designed Capacity the last time the battery was fully charged.
Battery ID MSI Corp. MS-1221 Design Capacity 47520 Last Full Charge 17831 Last Full Charge (%) 37

i have msi laptop, and just recently i got this similar problem like everyone here. i had read on a forum outside to try system restore, i tried but it's not successful,it says i should disable my antivirus. i haven't tried again.
purchasing a brand new battery ain't that easy coz it ain't cheap..
aren't there any solution yet?
i cant bring my laptop with me because of this..

There are quite a few comments/suggestions, that if you receive this message, then your battery is, as it says, about to give up.
In this thread, there are several ways suggested (I was one) as to how to get the OS to say fully charged. In most cases, this is temporary, although some seem to have been succesful.
As I understand, even now still in the rumour stage, it occurs on just a few computer motherboards with a particularr Intel chip? (Acer 700 series seems to be one such).
But. One thing of which I can assure most users. It is not, in the initial stages, a battery problem!
I was lucky enough to have access to batteries, when this problem occurred. All, of three, new batteries, gave the same message after a short useage.
I believe that the original (cheaper!) batteries, can, with undercharging, eventually change their "memory" and adopt a new maximum figure, beteen 80 to 90%. This does mean a spoiled battery in the long run, when the situation become irreversible.. In the same context, I have read that more modern Nicads do not have this memory problem.
Most computers exhibiting this symptom are probably, by now, out of guarantee unfortunately.
The only way to cope with the problem, if you have gone to the extent of purchasing a new battery, is, as with all rechageables, to, from time to time, allow the laptop to discharge the battery to varying levels - even completely if you are able (Not too easy with a laptop, it always has a fairly high residue.)
Several methods of achieving this are in this thread.

logicearth said:

peterjaena said:

PLEASE provide us some answer. What can we do to fix this problem. It is even better if you will replace all our batteries!"

Replace your battery or talk to the original manufacture of your computer. The battery says it is dieing so there is only one logical solution, replace the battery. Why is that so hard to understand?

logicearth said:

ladygem018;1226167...purchasing a brand new battery ain't that easy coz it ain't cheap..
[U said:

aren't there any solution yet?[/U]
i cant bring my laptop with me because of this..

Software cannot fix hardware problems. Your battery is at the end of its life. Replacing it is the only solution you have. There is not much else that can be done.

These sort of posts annoy me as it encourages people to buy new batteries when they either don't need to or if they do, the battery has been damaged by some other medium - and from the looks of this thread it appears to be Win7. Hence they should look at the root cause before buying an expensive battery only to have the problem return.

I have just forked out on a brand new battery as win7 advised me to do and it hasn't made any difference.

Anything below 100% and the message comes up (red cross through battery and "consider replacing you battery" message) it's then about 30 minutes before it's dead, or Win7 thinks it's dead and it goes into standby.

There is lots of conflicting advice above. Is there a definitive solution? Is it possible to 'reset' the battery? I am not able to tell the PC to 'take no action' when it reaches critical level to test how long the battery really has left, the only options are 'shut down' 'sleep' or 'hibernate'....

Any help appreciated. It's pretty annoying having to use my laptop plugged in all the time.

Thanks