No Warning before Presario low battery shutdown

My Compaq Presario v6000*** gives NO WARNING before it shuts down when
the battery gets low. No popup or sound. Battery life itself also
seems short, about 1.5 hour.

has been like this since I bought it, in March 07
V6000t
Celeron M cpu 430 1.73 Ghz
2000 MB ram

I don't know about Compaq but my thinkpads have an option in the power
saving setups to set the percentage of battery you want to be notified at.
If you dumped all the preinstall programs then you probably won't have an
option. It probably has/had a battery management program.


"tom LA Reader" <LAReader4@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My Compaq Presario v6000*** gives NO WARNING before it shuts down when
> the battery gets low. No popup or sound. Battery life itself also
> seems short, about 1.5 hour.
>
> has been like this since I bought it, in March 07
> V6000t
> Celeron M cpu 430 1.73 Ghz
> 2000 MB ram
>

"Woody" <TheDuck@pond.net> wrote in message
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>
> "tom LA Reader" <LAReader4@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1194128679.432485.24170@v29g2000prd.googlegro ups.com...
>> My Compaq Presario v6000*** gives NO WARNING before it shuts down when
>> the battery gets low. No popup or sound. Battery life itself also
>> seems short, about 1.5 hour.
>
>I don't know about Compaq but my thinkpads have an option in the power
>saving setups to set the percentage of battery you want to be notified
>at. If you dumped all the preinstall programs then you probably won't
>have an option. It probably has/had a battery management program.
>

HP/Compaq set that way also - go to Control Panel - POWER Mgmt
There you'll find different options - desktop/laptop/always on /etc
Under each you can adjust 2 things:
1. WHEN to notify you ( when x minutes left ) , and
2. WHEN to shutdown ( with y minutes left ).

So if you set to NEVER notify you and to NEVER shutdown, it will run until
it dies without warning you. Adjust those 2 settings .
As for lasting only 1.5 hrs, it might just be that way it is set right now
that the battery it always completely drained each time and chemicals are
wearing out ( depends on type: Lithium-Ion, Ni-Cad, etc) One type is best
to recharge with 30-50% left, other is ok to drain.