Laptop battery...

[Aηdy]

hey guys,

i have a packard bell igo 4451 laptop and a while ago the battery stopped working, wont charge or anything... and ive seen new ones cost about £114!! and i was wondering if you can get like batteries that can be used for all laptops, like a universal battery i suppose. i dont want to pay much more than £80. but any help will be appreaciated (sp?) lol thanks

[Skhorpion]

no you cant get a universal battery

www.ebay.com

packard bell is REALLY old

[Aηdy]

my laptop is only 3 years old and they are still going now...

[Skhorpion]

oh well my packard bell desktop ran windows 95 and for it, IE was considered a processor intensive task

[Aηdy]

haha well mines XP home ed. umm bout 1.5 ghz amd and bout 128mb ram.. and cos i only use it for msn and maxathon its really quick :D

[Scar]

could it be your charger be. do you really know if it is the battery?

[Aηdy]

its defo the battery because i run the laptop off the charger and packard bell say thet they usually only last 2 years

[123456]

I stick with dell computers all around and love their products

My old gateway had a battery go bad so i tossed it as the warrenty would not cover it and got a dell


another thing to watch out for is the "memory effect " in those batteries...they say some have the effect and some dont but i really think they all do

make sure you dont keep the battery plugged in all the time and only charge it when it goes almost dead all the way...

as for universal batterys...you cant get them, the dell batts wont work with gateway or any other laptops..they do this for a reason

[Aηdy]

ah-hah!! :D this was the kind of thing i was looking for: http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/miscpages/maxpower_batteries.htm