Maintenance and troubleshooting your laptop battery ! (二)

Maintenance and troubleshooting your laptop battery !

These are average results and the results will vary greatly depending on your system's

conservation settings, the temperature of the room and the climate that you are operating your

computer in. As a general rule, your Lithium Ion battery will last much longer than your

standard Nickel Metal Hydride battery.Now let's take a look at the various usage habits to

consider when troubleshooting your laptop's battery. These processes are very similar to the

way that your portable stereo uses batteries ... just think how much faster your stereo eats

batteries when you are playing the CD or the tape deck, as opposed to when you are just playing

the radio.The more you use physical devices --- which require more electricity to operate --- the

more of the battery's power you can expect to consume. The devices that create a larger power

drain are the hard drive, the floppy drive and the CD-ROM.When the computer is able to use its

physical memory resources to store information, the computer will use less of the battery's

power, since the process is mostly electrical in nature. However, when the processes you are

using exhaust the physical memory resources available to your system, the system will turn to

virtual memory to continue the process at hand. Virtual Memory is designed to extend system

memory resources by building a memory swap file on the hard drive, and then transfer needed

information between the hard drive and the physical memory as required. Since the hard drive

is a electricity hog, the use of virtual memory becomes an electricity hog by proxy.