Aug 30
adminBattery technology battery, HP, laptop, Pavilion DV9000, review
The 7.8-pound HP Pavilion dv9000 is a desktop replacement that’s serious about multimedia. Its matte- or glossy-finished, 17-inch wide-screen display comes with a native resolution of either WXGA+ (1,440×900) or WSXGA+ (1,680×1,050), and the system features LED-backlit, also a 8cell HP Pavilion DV9000 battery ,touch-sensitive multimedia controls; two headphone jacks (one of which supports S/PDIF out); and HP’s QuickPlay 2.1 software for accessing media without booting into Windows.
The Pavilion DV9000 battery specs :
Battery Type: Li-ion 8Cell
Volt: 14.4 Volt
Weight : 1.49 lbs
Dimensions : 11.26 x 8.90 x 1.85″
Maximum run time : MobileMark 2002 (wireless off): 2 hours, 25 minutes
HP Pavilion dv9000 battery overview :
Compatibility with HP Pavilion dv9000 series notebook PCs
Rely on HP; this battery has been specially designed and tested to meet your HP notebook’s power needs
The HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop battery features: long battery life and maximum power, quick-charging!
Customer Review
“I bought a second laptop battery as I am often at client sites and need the time 2 batteries will give me. The original battery (18 mos old) is starting to show some signs of reduced life. The backup (1 year old) still gives me 2-3 hours. I make it a point to unplug my machine and cycle the batteries a couple of time a week. There is no faster way to kill a battery than to leave it plugged “for 99.5% of the time” as some of the reviewers admit doing. I learned that lesson on previous machines. There’s nothing wrong with either of pavilion DV6000 battery I have – I am very satisfied. I think the problem with the other reviews is user error. BTW – you should expect to replace the battery every 18 months – shorter if you abuse it by leaving it plugged in. I’ve been using laptops exclusively since 1995 and I have never had a battery that didn’t completely die within 2 years. That’s just how they work. Cycle the battery all the way to 0 at least once a week. That will give you the maximum life from it. These are no worse than any other battery.”
“I have had my dv9000 laptop for 2 years, this past December. So that is roughly 26 months now and I leave my laptop battery in my computer ALL the time and it still runs. It all depends on what power setting I am using. On high performance, the battery will still last about 45 min to an hour and on power saver it will last roughly 2-2 1/2 hours. I try to take care of my computer, but it has over heated on numerous occasions (all my fault for not using a cooling pad) and the battery is still going. (Wish HP had better design to cool the laptops) To bad the replacement batteries are so expensive.”
“My business partner bought the Pavillion DV9000 battery as more useful office computers for the company in 2004. The HP laptops have been wonderful. The first battery that came with the laptop lasted about two years. The second about 18 months. The third barely made it through a year. I have had to park the laptop because it is eating up our media budget. The other laptop does not use batteries as quickly, but it is not used as often. No, the laptop does not stay plugged in all the time. It stays in its case, battery in a separate compartment. I was told that is the best way to store the laptop. So today, I am finally ordering battery number 4. At these battery replacement prices, we may have to go back to another brand, which I liked much less. What a shame.”
“Both the original battery and a replacement spare battery only lasted about 1 year before reduced run time made them only useful for moving from one AC outlet to another. I’m ordering another with hopes that the battery has been improved. I think my mistake has been to leave the battery in the computer and on AC most of the time. HP should have software on the computer to prevent destruction of the battery due to overcharging.”
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Jul 22
adminBattery technology CPU, DIY, home, laptop, replace, shopping
The CPU is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, and is the primary element carrying out the computer’s functions. The processor is essentially the brain of the laptop , with faster processors leading to faster computing time. So if our laptop CPU failed, our laptop can not start and work. We must remove the CPU and replace a new one. Sometimes the old version CPU can not afford our working and playing work, the laptop become very slowt then we should replace them.
Follow these instructions before beginning.
- Remove the CPU thermal cooling system
- NOTE: To prevent damage to the Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery CPU, hold the screwdriver so that is perpendicular to the lever of the CPU when turn the screw off.
- To loosen the ZIF socket, use a small screwdriver and rotate the ZIF socket cam screw counterclockwise until it comes to CAM-Stop.
1 ZIF-socket cam screw 2. ZIF socket
NOTE: To play the maximum cooling of the CPU , do not touch the heat transfer areas of dell vostro 1000 battery CPU thermal cooling assembly. The oils of your skin, can reduce the ability of transfer heat from a heating pad.
NOTE: When removing the CPU, pull the module up. Be careful not to bend the pins of the CPU.
- Lift the CPU ZIF socket.
Replacing the CPU
NOTE: Do not touch the CPU die. Press and hold down the CPU on the substrate mounted by the dice, while the screw to prevent intermittent contact between the screw and the CPU.
NOTE: Make sure the cam lock in the fully open position before inserting the Dell Inspiron E1705 Battery CPU. Be the CPU correctly in the ZIF socket does not require force. A CPU is not positioned correctly can result in a dropped connection or permanent damage to the microCPU and ZIF socket.
NOTE: If a new CPU is installed, you will receive a new thermal cooling assembly, installation of a heating pad or you will become a new heating pad with a sheet containing an appropriate facility to illustrate.
- Align the pin 1 corner of the CPU with pin-1 corner of the ZIF socket, then insert the dell vostro 1400 battery CPU.Note: The pin-1 corner of the CPU is a triangle, which coincides with the triangle in a corner pin ZIF socket
If the CPU is in place, the four corners are aligned at the same height. If one or more corners of the module higher than the other does not, the module is correctly aligned.
1 ZIF socket Cam screw 2 ZIF connector 3 pin-1 corner
NOTE: To prevent damage to the CPU, hold the screwdriver so that is perpendicular to the lever of the CPU to turn the screw.
- Pull the ZIF socket by turning the screw clockwise to the CPU, to ensure secure CPU to the motherboard.
- Replace the laptop battery CPU cooling thermal assembly (see Replacing the Cooling Assembly CPU heat).
Jun 15
adminlaptop express card, how to, install, laptop
When we enjoy a weekedn with our family and shoot many pictures. We want to store it in our laptop battery and share with any other friends with email. We use the ExpressCard to connect the camera memory card with the laptop. Also ExpressCard plug-in hardware available includes TV tuners, mobile broadband cards, FireWire 800 (1394B), Serial ATA external disk drives, solid-state drives, wireless network interface cards, TV tuner card common access card (CAC) reader and soundcards. Media remote control units are available that use the ExpressCard slot to store and recharge battery4.us.
So we must at least know how to remove and install a ExpressCards.
How to remove an ExpressCard or Blank
Inface removing an ExpressCard is a very easy thing. You can complete it only by two steps:
1.Press the Dell Latitude D620 Battery card or blank to remove it from its slot.
2.Save a blank to use when no Dell Latitude D510 Battery ExpressCard is installed in a slot. Blanks protect unused slots from dust and other particles.
How to install an ExpressCard or Blank
You can install Express Card while the Dell Latitude D630 Battery computer is running. The computer automatically recognizes the card.
ExpressCards are generally marked with a symbol (like a triangle or arrow) or specify a label, which end in the slot to connect. The Dell Latitude D520 Battery cards are keyed to prevent incorrect insertion. If the map orientation is unclear, consult the documentation that came with the card.
To install an ExpressCard:
Keep the card shows the top of the card facing up.
Insert the card into the slot until the Dell Latitude D830 Battery card is fully engaged in the port.
If you encounter too much resistance, no force. Check the card orientation and try again.
The computer recognizes the ExpressCard and automatically loads the appropriate device driver. If the setup program tells you to load the Dell Latitude D820 Battery drivers from the manufacturer to use the media that came with the Express card.
May 14
admintips battery, faq, laptop, tips
Last week I buy a Dell notebook from Dell.com, then I want to know some laptop battery tips and problems by google. I found many frequent asked questions about laptop battery, but there are various answers for them. So I send a email to laptop battery expect “Jack Smith” in http://www.laptops-battery.co.uk/ about these doubts. He reply me in the August 11, below is the reply content.
What is the six months warranty laptop battery?
Generally the laptop battery quality warranty is one year, but we can find many 6 months warranty “Original laptop battery” in ebay and other online shops? What is these six months warranty laptop battery?
Most the six months warranty batteries are the old battery with the new cells, old original battery shell and protection board. You can find the detail introduce here “How to replace battery cells inside laptop battery“. As the battery protection board is old one, so the laptop battery can only work properly about six months.
For laptop battery, the higher capacity the better?
For different models (particularly different size) battery, the higher capacity battery can work longer. Exclude the size and weight factors, of course that the higher capacity the better.
However, the same battery type, the same nominal capacity (for example,Inspiron 6400 battery 6600mAh), the actual measurement capacity is different: for example One Inspiron E1505 battery capacity is 6600mAh, and the other is 6700mAh, then the 6700mAh battery is better then 6600mAh?
The actual situation may be that : In the high capacity battery’s electrode materials, increase the initial capacity of more things, and reduce the materials to stability of the electrode. It may result that after used for some charging-discharging cycles, the capacity of high-capacity battery reduce rapidly, while the capacity of low battery is still strong. Many laptop battery manufacturers often use such method to produce the high-capacity battery. After used for six months the GD761, KD476, TD347 battery standby time is too less.
Enhance the battery capacity can reduce the battery cycle life. If the laptop battery manufacturers are not make great efforts in battery material, it is impossible to truly “improve” the capacity of the battery.
It is worth to store the fully-charged battery
Lithium-ion batteries have a very bad characteristic, that is the lithium-ion laptop battery aging time. When a lithium-ion battery in storage for some time, even not in recycled, its capacity also lost in the storage. Because the lithium-ion battery anode materials begun the failure process when manufactured. Different temperatures and Latitude D830 battery charged state cause the different consequences statute. You can the get the general conclusion by following data ( the percentage of capacity in the form):
Storage temperature – 40% state of charge ——- 100% state of charge
0 degrees ———- 98% (a year later ) ——- 94% (a year later)
That is the all, hopes that can help you.
Feb 21
adminBattery technology battery, journey, laptop, power
Battery : Power in the journey
Who wants to buy is not always fresh laptop batteries for cameras and music players, invest in rechargeable batteries. Eventually, the discharged current donors up to 1000 times more recharge, promises to advertising. But beware: Error loading reduced performance and life of a battery dramatically. COMPUTER IMAGE tells you what to consider when buying batteries and chargers.
For which devices is worthwhile to batteries?
For all devices, which consume a lot of power in a short time. For digital cameras, music player and flashlight Latitude D820 Battery are therefore better than batteries. Although batteries are in AA (AA) – or micro format (AAA) with about 5 euros more expensive than batteries (75 cents). But an AA battery replaced during its lifetime 200 batteries.
What type of battery is best?
It depends on the intended use. A good price-performance ratio offer the popular nickel Metallydrid batteries. But for some purposes are nickel-cadmium batteries, lead and lithium-ion Dell Latitude D520 Battery cells better. COMPUTER IMAGE describes the advantages and disadvantages of different types of the next page in this guide.
How long does a battery last?
Many manufacturers advertise the Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery with claims such as “up to 1000 times rechargeable. But each discharge – this is the complete discharge of the battery marked by prolonged disuse – and every overloading damages the battery. In practice, most power sources to create around 400 charge cycles.
What should I consider when buying a charger?
Buy only chargers that are suitable for the type of Inspiron 6400 Battery . Not every device can load as antiquated nickel-cadmium cells. And for lead or lithium batteries, you need a device with constant voltage. Good chargers have the following features:
- * Microprocessor control: It ensures that the battery is fast, but also gently loaded.
- * Power Off: You know when your Dell Latitude D830 Battery is full (see picture above right).
- * Maintenance Mode: The device thus determines the battery is charged and discharged completely before recharging it, the so-called “memory-preventing effect”. This effect occurs especially for nickel-cadmium Dell Latitude D800 Battery : they are often discharged only partially formed in the interior of crystals. Result: The battery stores less energy.
What types of chargers are available?
- * Universal Chargers: load except AA or AAA batteries, including 9-volt batteries, flashlights, or thick blocks (Baby or mono cells) with high capacity Dell Latitude D620 Battery. They are available from 25 euros.
- * Compact charger with microprocessor control: they make up to four Sony VGP-BPS8 AA or micro-cells in three to four hours afloat again. They are have over 21 euros.
- * Fast-Chargers: This “turbo-charge” VGP-BPS9/B VGP-BPS9/S batteries to make it operational in 15 minutes. But for up to 6 amps to flow (that’s the measure of the strength of electricity), and this shortens the life span to about 250 charge cycles. Most devices do not make it to recharge standard batteries in fifteen minutes altogether. A little bit longer’s in practice already.
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