Maybe all you PCers can help out a poor Mac user here, this time around.
Got a new PC laptop, a simple Presario running WindowsXP, this past March, for my late father-in-law. Everything else has been fine with it (well, as fine as one can expect from a PC, I mean
) except that we have noted that if left asleep but not plugged in, the battery goes completely dead.
This happened recently, for example, even when it had only been used for a few minutes on a full charge and then closed. The monitor didn't stay on, either -- wasn't one of those occasional things where you open it up to see that it never went off and the keyboard is hot or something like that. Also my wife had a theory that it had to do on at least one occasion with a CD-ROM of our son's that we found had been left in the drive (as if the drive had continued working or something), but this last time, that wasn't the case, either. And there seems to be no mistake in terms of the power settings in the control panel, as when I opened that up this morning, it showed that everything was already set to spin down or turn off after 10-15 mins of non-use. Anyway, again this was a case where it was closed, so it wasn't forgotten and left running all that time, no matter what those settings were. Finally it wasn't a case of it just not waking up for some reaon, as it immediately did start up when plugged in and I confirmed in the control panel that the battery was in fact fully depleted.
Any diagnosis or suggestions would be appreciated!
Steve