Hi all, My work gave me a Dell Latitude laptop late November or early December. The battery they gave me with it held very little charge, so they gave me a new one. Since then I've been through 4 batteries. The first three were used ones laying around the supply room (the last of those was a 9 volt one, instead of a 6 volt). When I first received the 9 volt one, the battery lasted 6 hours. Within a week, it lasted 2 hours. The workplace finally bought me a brand new battery about 2 weeks ago. Again, at first it lasted like 3 hours and now I'm down to 1.
Work tech help is out of ideas.
The only weird thing I'm doing is that I had another Dell laptop at home whose power cord fit this laptop, so I didn't haul my laptop cord back and forth. I checked the voltage and wattage and they are exactly the same and the tip fits snugly into this laptop.
Is the laptop eating batteries?
Is the cord at home doing this? If I get another new battery, will it be ok if I only use the power cord that came with this laptop?
Any help would be appreciated!
Oh one other thing--the laptop almost always warns me of the time left (at around 25% of the battery power) but instead of lasting for time it says I have, it almost immediately crashes.
It's running Windows Vista basic with an Intel Core i5. I'm not sure which model of Latitude it is, but can investigate if that helps.