How to fix the error "Is it recommended to replace the battery on the laptop"? What to do in this case?

It happens that your PC in the lower right corner of the monitor has started showing an alarming red X. The system indicates that it is recommended to replace the battery on the laptop. What to do in this case? Is there a solution to the problem? Of course have. But it is worth noting that not always this system message is correct, and it does not need to blindly trust it. Perhaps the problem lies elsewhere.

Causes of the problem

Fortunately, there are not many of them at all. The most logical version of the error is the natural deterioration of the battery and its incorrect operation due to a long time of use. The operating system itself analyzes battery health and indicates that it needs to be changed.

Wear is a certain number of cycles of discharge / charging, in which the battery loses its efficiency. By the way, this period is specified in the instruction manual, and surprisingly, on average, it is 2-3 years. Although, of course, everything depends on the correctness of use. Perhaps, and the laptop battery, which has worked for 6-7 years, will work like a clock.

Another reason is a system failure. It happens that the system takes a working battery for a faulty one, and therefore a similar error occurs. There is another factor, because of which it is recommended to replace the battery on the laptop - this is a problem with the outlet. It happens because of voltage drops or a malfunction of the outlet. How to solve this problem, you can guess yourself, but here are the previous two, we will consider in more detail.

Simple Actions

Before you delve into system changes and other complications, try to start:

1. Carry out several charging and discharging cycles. In this case, the battery needs to be charged only when the notebook is turned off.
2. Also try to remove the battery and leave it for 10-15 minutes alone. Then plug in and turn on the laptop.
3. Reconcile and use laptop as a desktop PC. In this case - no cost.
4. Buy a new battery. There may be problems with finding the right model.
5. You can include the battery in the repair. This option is not the best, because not always financial costs can justify themselves.

Update drivers

So, we have examined why the laptop writes: "It is recommended to replace the battery", and now we will analyze in detail the methods of correction. The first is the driver update. This option is better to use if you are sure that the battery is really working. Combine Win + R open the command line, enter control. Choose "View" and "Large Icons". In the Device Manager, select "Batteries." From the list, select "Battery with ACPI-compatible control" and right-click to delete this item. Now, for the changes to take effect, we reboot the PC. After turning on, you will not see the message "it is recommended to replace the battery" on the laptop. What if it did not help?

Calibrate the battery

To implement this process, you need to understand what is it? If we do not go into a lot of complexities and terms, let's move on to the notion of "memory effect". In a simple way, this is a reduction in the initial capacity. This happens either because of physical defects, or as a consequence of constant recharging not to the end of the discharged battery. Simply put, if your laptop is not fully discharged, you charge it, but again - not completely, it loses energy, but in the end does not get it.

The battery becomes weaker due to the fact that the battery seemed to "remember" the boundary to which it could not charge, and perceives it as the boundary of its capacity. Then a lot of errors appear, and the battery does not work correctly. The calibration process does not make the volume bigger, it just removes all errors from the memory and resumes the capacity boundary.

There are two types of batteries:

• Lithium-ion;
• Nickel.

Each of them has its own calibration process. In the first case, the "memory effect" practically does not affect the battery. But wear, as with any technique, always happens. Therefore, the calibration in this case is carried out so that there are no unexpected trips at 30% charge. If nevertheless it is recommended to replace the battery on the laptop, what to do in the case of a nickel battery?

They require periodic calibration. So, you need to work in the offline mode until the shutdown is complete. Then charge the battery to maximum. The process itself is desirable to be repeated a couple of times. But before such a calibration, you need to set up a power plan. We find the tab "Power supply" in the control panel. You will be presented with several plans for battery operation. On different laptops they are named differently. You need to choose "Portable" or "Balanced". Then click "Configure the power mode" and in the lines "Display off" and "Sleep mode", set the parameter "Never".

Battery disconnection

This method does not completely solve your problem if the laptop writes: "It is recommended to replace the battery". What to do in this case? We do everything the same as with the update of drivers, but instead of "Delete" we select "Disable". In this case, you just lose this annoying message.

How to check?

If the system says: "It is recommended to replace the battery on the laptop", then first you need to check the battery after all. "Start" - "Run", on the command line we write powercfgenergy. There will be a check, and the report can be found in the line "Additional information" - "Information about the battery". The greater the value of "Last full charge" relative to "Estimated capacity," the better.

How to replace?

It is very easy to replace an old battery. Turn off the laptop. There are two sliders on the back cover. One of them, when you move it back, returns to the place, the other remains in the right position. Therefore, when the second one is clicked off, the first one must be held and the battery removed. To insert a new one, you just need to snap it.

It's all Windows 7

What does it mean - is it recommended to replace the battery on the laptop? Basically, you have already dealt with this issue. But sometimes it happens that the whole problem in Windows 7. It turns out that this operating system is guilty of this problem. Despite the fact that Microsoft is trying to fix everything, OS users periodically complain about battery problems.

How users respond, after buying a laptop with an already installed Windows7 after 2-3 weeks, the charge time and battery life are almost halved. So far, it is known that it is recommended to replace the battery on the laptop due to the inconsistency of certain elements in the system itself and some BIOS elements, since in this case the battery requires a constant recharging and wears out very quickly.

If you run into the fact that you are recommended to replace the battery on the laptop, what to do with this, you already know. If all of the above methods do not help you, you will have to turn to the professionals in the service center. Especially if the laptop is new and is still under warranty. Then the repair will cost you for free.