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Dell inspiron 3543 new battery draining

ghuffri

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Oct 12, 2016
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i want to ask that i bought new laptop Dell inspiron 15 3000 series 3543, from about a week its battery acting weird like when i bought this laptop it gives 6 to 7 hour of battery time easily but now it is drained within two and a half to 3 hours i dont understand the problem does anybody have this kind of problem?
P.S i upgraded my laptop's hdd to SSD and ram also.
 
Well it could be what you are doing on the laptop. Different things will drain a battery much faster. Especially high graphic games, movies, etc. I would try seeing how much time you get out of the battery doing different things, before it runs out of a charge, to see if it is a problem, or just something you are running is the culprit.

Also, are you making sure to fully charge it?

Lastly, if it is a new computer, I would be contacting the manufacturer as you shouldn't be having that issue that soon.
 


 
thanks for the reply and the problem automatically solved I don't know how but it solved now I think windows causing a problem,I install windows two to three times coz after updating windows 10 1607 my laptop got stuck all the time, maybe repetitively installation of windows causing this !
 


 
One more thing I want to ask that I have core i5 5th gen 8 gb ram ddr3l and 256 gb sandisk ssd as I mentioned before but laptop is lagging too much like sometimes my desktop pc which is Core2Duo 3.0 ghz 6mb cache perform faster than my laptop I used my laptop for programming purpose and Database apps like sql and oracle apex visual studio ! any suggestions will be highly appreciated !
 
Have you checked to make sure that there is nothing still on the system that is running in the background? Also anything that has left parts on the system after uninstallations? Those are the most common culprits.