My Laptop's battery takes so long to charge, and it doesn't last

[catsmaty]

Hi,

Few months ago I upgraded the RAM of my Dell laptop, the company I bought it from they send me the wrong one (Higher Voltage), I didn't take notice of this till I started to notice that the battery only last half an hour instead of 3.5 hours and it takes ages to charge.

After that I fitted the correct RAM, but my laptop still takes about 3 hours to charge and it only last an hour or less.

Please keep in mind that I'm only using the Firefox browser and I don't have many addons installed/running.

Please let me know if there is something I can do to restore the battery's charging and usage performance.

Thank you

 

[webworkings]

It may just be a coincidence in timing. It sounds more like it may be the battery itself that is now also in need of replacing.

 

[catsmaty]

Thank you for your reply.

The battery is original Dell and relatively new, I wonder if there is another reason?

 

[webworkings]

I am curious myself as to the cause now.

Anyone else have any ideas?