Have i killed my battery

[Mad Pierre]

I have a IBM R40e laptop. and on the battery information, my battery should be charging to around 43.19 wh, but i'm getting 11.19 Wh. Here a screen grab. Now it been like this since i flashed the BIOS when the battery was around 35%. Is there a way to refresh the battery so that it charges back up to 43 Wh and stops cutting out at 11. THXS

 

[Crism]

No way to get it higher. Mine are like that too. It's normal wear and tear.

 

[Mad Pierre]

Ah time for a new battery then. Not very good tho' 219 cycle's.

 

[TheCanuck]

Sometimes the bios has a battery recalibration option that just lets it run down so that the electronics can determine the actual capacity. Might want to check your bios for that option, if it doesnt have one then you can get a similar effect by booting to a dos prompt and letting it just run down.

Probably won't improve the actual capacity that much but it should help the battery figure out where the 100% charge level should actually be / give a better indicator of the remaining time.