Satellite A660-17 t - PC Health Monitor shows the problem with the battery

I have an A660-17 t I've had since November 2010, I used a good amount, but not always on the battery, I believe that the battery has between 10 and 20 on this charge/discharge cycles.

I have updated the BIOS to v1.80 when I got the laptop, everything seemed to go well. Recently, in the last 2-3 weeks health monitoring software reports that the battery is in poor health, showing that the capacity is reduced to 40% of the original capacity. I do not believe this like when I work on battery I get several hours of use.

I have today updated BIOS v1.90, although there is no changelog that I can find, he says just "enhanced features" or similar.

Is this really a faulty battery, or it is somehow that the software correctly reads the value of the capacity of the battery due to a change in Windows or another change in the system? I don't see how a battery can work for the same amount of time it has always done and actually have a fault.

Any thoughts? Should I return it to the retailer and report an outage, or is it worth the wait to see if a future update of operating system or driver solves this problem?

Thoughts welcome!

Hey,.

> I do not think this as when I work on battery I get several hours of use.
This means that you have the same time remaining on battery as before you saw the error of the integrity PC monitor?

In this case, it seems that the battery is ok and it's maybe s simply the wrong tool of Toshiba information. Then I recommend to reinstall PC Health Monitor, which you can download from the official website of Toshiba:
http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads

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