The battery that lasted just a quarter-hour
A late but due update on the lasting consequences of the failed upgrade to the laptop CPU: after two processors (X9100 and T9900), two memory banks, a fan and a cooling mat, that unfortunate attempt to install a 3 GHz dual-core cost me the replacement of the PC power battery as well. The battery was in fact replaced at the end of the past year, after months spent waiting to have a bit of extra money to put on the purchase.
I commonly use the PC in stationary mode, on a desk where there is always a socket to which connect the laptop’s external PSU. So said, after having re-installed the original processor I finally realized that I couldn’t count on a battery lasting a couple of hours any more: with the system unplugged from the house socket, the maximum battery life I had was cut down to a remarkable quarter hour and not more.
The old dead battery (above) and its replacement (below)
Burnt, the battery cells were destroyed by too much stress, energy requirement (because of the higher CPU TDP) heat or who knows what: the new compatible (and original, as the seller on eBay claimed and still claims) battery cost me more than € 90, and after six months of nonstop and intensive use the unplugged system seems to last the same as before (with the most demanding profile as for energy consumption).
At this point I can’t help but being optimistic: this MUST be the last waste of money I am forced to do to put a fix to an upgrade experiment gone wrong nay extremely wrong. Next time, before putting my hands inside a laptop, I will ask for advice to someone that surely knows about hardware more than me and everyone else.
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