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Battery damaged after Win 7 installation?
First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum
Now onto business;
So I have had my laptop for about 1 year now, an Advent 6551, everything you need to know about it is here: UKT Support - Advent 6551 Laptop I've put it through countless formats and windows installations. This has never been problem for me before(currently have Win7 on it and have had for a couple months now), but earlier on today, I noticed my battery icon on my taskbar had a red X over it, when I hover over it, I see the error "Consider replacing your battery"
This leads me to believe I've taking bad care of my battery and over used it..which is ridiculous. I've always taken good care of my laptop, plugging it out when it has no need to be on etc.
I read a little about it online and a few forums have had a discussion about Windows 7 destroying battery's around the globe, I find it hard to believe that Win7 is the cause but countless people have reported this battery problem after installing it.
My mothers laptop only recently got this battery problem too after I installed 7 on it(it is dual booted to Vista which now also having the same problem when it never did before), and now mine.
So for the tech heads on this site, what are your thoughts?
Also, should I replace the battery? That's not cheap.. Should I just whip out the battery and let the charger power the lappy for now, or would that just wreck the charger too?