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Acer TMP645, Win7 Pro 64-Bit: New battery status, fan running too much
The battery in my wife's Acer died abruptly a few weeks ago. It was 2-2.5 years old. The new battery possesses larger capacity than the OE yet, I am observing Windows is reporting varying time periods for the battery when fully charged. Initially, Windows was reporting periods of 10-11 hours. I just charged it again and it states 2 h 59 min... My reading here indicates batteries do not need to be calibrated as was the case years ago. What could explain these observations? Note, I have had the laptop shutdown as a result of the low battery two times and I fully charged it (as indicated by the battery status LED) before use. This charging method is the only thing I have seen suggested here for battery calibration issues.
Second, the cooling fan in the laptop has been running too much in the recent past (1-2 weeks). This can be true if McAfee is running in the background but, it is not. The fan is on almost all the time the laptop is on...something is not right with this.
The only other recent actions I have taken with the laptop was to change the Windows Update settings preventing the Windows 10 automatic upgrade. These changes have been stable so, I do not expect much of my current observations of this laptop to be related to this factor.
Advice? Things to look into?
Thank you.