"Consider Replacing Your Battery"

Just bought an HP DV7-4070US about 2 months ago (Brand new) with windows 7. The battery is now dead and it's indicating this message.

Never in my history of laptop ownership have I ever had a 9cell battery die this quickly.

EVER.


Battery ID Hewlett-PackardPrimary
Design Capacity 93240
Last Full Charge 35875
Last Full Charge (%) 38

I guess I'm really fortunate. My battery is the original one in my 2 1/2 year old Toshiba laptop:

Design Capacity 94576
Last Full Charge 84977
90%

I called HP and they're replacing it.

WHEW.

I just REALLY hope I don't get this battery and it's dead in the same time span...

You don't think it's this mysterious "Windows 7 Consider Replacing Your Battery" thing that got publicity earlier this year?

A bunch of websites have articles about it, CNET, Wired, Engadget ...

logicearth said:

webdevbrian said:

Just bought an HP DV7-4070US about 2 months ago (Brand new) with windows 7. The battery is now dead and it's indicating this message.

Never in my history of laptop ownership have I ever had a 9cell battery die this quickly.

EVER.


Battery ID Hewlett-PackardPrimary
Design Capacity 93240
Last Full Charge 35875
Last Full Charge (%) 38

You better call HP then. I don't know HP's policy but if it is still under warranty they will probably replace the obvious faulty battery.

I wouldn't be so sure. I have a laptop that perfectly fits the description of both the battery failure and hardware overheating failure HP recalls as well as an NVIDIA recall, but it doesn't fall under the "affected model numbers" so they won't do anything about it. HP is off the radar for me after these ridiculous antics.

FliGi7 said:

logicearth said:

webdevbrian said:

Just bought an HP DV7-4070US about 2 months ago (Brand new) with windows 7. The battery is now dead and it's indicating this message.

Never in my history of laptop ownership have I ever had a 9cell battery die this quickly.

EVER.


Battery ID Hewlett-PackardPrimary
Design Capacity 93240
Last Full Charge 35875
Last Full Charge (%) 38

You better call HP then. I don't know HP's policy but if it is still under warranty they will probably replace the obvious faulty battery.

I wouldn't be so sure. I have a laptop that perfectly fits the description of both the battery failure and hardware overheating failure HP recalls as well as an NVIDIA recall, but it doesn't fall under the "affected model numbers" so they won't do anything about it. HP is off the radar for me after these ridiculous antics.

They luckily replaced it. It's being shipped as we speak

webdevbrian said:

FliGi7 said:

logicearth said:

You better call HP then. I don't know HP's policy but if it is still under warranty they will probably replace the obvious faulty battery.

I wouldn't be so sure. I have a laptop that perfectly fits the description of both the battery failure and hardware overheating failure HP recalls as well as an NVIDIA recall, but it doesn't fall under the "affected model numbers" so they won't do anything about it. HP is off the radar for me after these ridiculous antics.

They luckily replaced it. It's being shipped as we speak

Lucky!

That's pretty good :)

I don't know what mine is, since I almost never have the battery in the laptop (I think I threw it in a cupboard somewhere lol.) The reason is that a friend I met at university said that just leaving a battery in, even if the laptop is connected to the mains power mostly, can wear the battery life down.

mikedl said:

I guess I'm really fortunate. My battery is the original one in my 2 1/2 year old Toshiba laptop:

Design Capacity 94576
Last Full Charge 84977
90%