Hello -
I have a Dell Inspiron 1526 laptop (basically one of the very cheap laptops from Best Buy). It is running Vista Home Premium.
Lately, the charging status indicator on the task bar is showing erroneous information. For instance, it never shows a charging battery status anymore - it thinks it's always discharging the battery - despite the fact that it is physically charging. As a result, it shows very weird numbers, like right now (while plugged in) it's saying 19% left with 886 hours remaining.
Unfortunately, the biggest problem with this is that the laptop uses the different power schemes, like dimming the monitor, etc, which can be quite annoying.
Does anybody have any idea how I can correct this? Is this a Vista problem, or Dell's?
Thanks,
Brett
1. change power settings to cancel sleep/hibernation. also cancel screensaver and monitor turn off
2. run the laptop completely to drain out all battery. (you can run some music or something to drain out power fastest)
it should result into computer being switched off... not slept
3. charge battery to fullest for around 4-6 hours with computer off.
repeat the processes 2 and 3. you can do this two more times.