[Coco] A NON-COCO related question??????????

[Jay Coleman]

If there's a Batteries Plus or something similar in your area, often they can replace the cells a little less expensively than a factory replacement.  The $25 Amazon or Ebay  batteries are either very poorly made or they're refreshed used cells, typically have half the advertised capacity or worse, and the best I've seen lasted a year (quality new cells would literally cost more than that wholesale).  That may meet your needs, but I find it isn't worth the hassle.  Unfortunately though, pretty much any rechargeable battery has a useful life of 3-5 years at most.  It's telling that the warranties are typically 30-90 days.

If you don't actually need the portability, but do need the outage protection, then a lower end UPS (500-750 VA) may be a solution.  The batteries for those are normally standardized lead-acid sizes and easily replaceable (iirc ~$30-40 for that size, but its been a while).  These units are really intended to give you enough time to save and shutdown cleanly, but I get about 2 hours for my cable modem and high end wifi router.   And it has the advantage of being compatible with any computer :)  I've found APC and Tripp-Lite are the best quality.  For the two CyberPower units I've tried, the charging circuits failed around 3-4 years in.

You may have to uninstall the battery management software in safe mode to go that route, as some will shut the system down if they detect a bad or missing battery.  I can never remember the safe mode key, (I think F8, start tapping the moment the BIOS screen goes off) but it's easily found on google.

Good luck,
Jay


On July 4, 2018 7:54:29 AM CDT, Michael Cook <send2mc at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Joe,
>I can't think of a setting that will actually stop the battery from
>charging so my thoughts are that the battery has reached its end of
>life.
>This eventually happens to all rechargeable batteries. It's probable
>that
>you had nothing to do with it dying. I'm thinking you were probably
>changing the settings as the battery life wasn't great. If so, I'd say
>it
>was about to fail anyway.
>You could try ebay for a replacement but I would recommend going direct
>to
>Sony for a good reliable one.
>I hope this helps, good luck,
>Michael Cook
>
>
>On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, 10:42 PM Joe Schutts via Coco
><coco at maltedmedia.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I have a NON-CoCo related question to ask everyone here. Sorry I'm
>doing
>> it here as I don't know where else to turn to, to get the answer I'm
>> looking for.
>> Here goes...
>> I have a Sony VIO Laptop (Dual-Core Processor running Windows 10 Pro)
>that
>> I use for E-Mail and such. Some time ago (not sure HOW long ago) I
>changed
>> the Power Options (looking forward to increasing the speed of this
>Laptop.
>> I know... dumb mistake...
>>
>> Now my problem is that whenever the electrical power goes out, the
>Laptop
>> no longer runs on battery (it just shuts off). I have tried
>repeatedly to
>> change the Power Settings to try and recharge the battery but it
>looks like
>> nothing I do works. The Battery Level indicator stays at ZERO Level
>and
>> stays there.
>> My question is...
>> 1. Did I kill my battery or is there some way to recover (or revive)
>it so
>> that it works again???
>> 2. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement battery (and
>roughly how
>> much it'll cost me)???
>> 3. Does anyone have ANY suggestions to prevent this from happening to
>me
>> again???
>> I usually leave the Laptop constantly connected to the AC Adapter
>(with
>> the Battery in place) and that way the Battery can take over in case
>of a
>> loss of electrical power... I might have made a big mistake by doing
>it
>> this way but again I didn't know any better...
>> Thanks Everyone for your help in this matter...
>> Joe...
>>
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