T410i: Improper power meter reading

[qbektrix]

I am using a T410i. [Win 7 Pro, Intel Core i3-330M (2.13GHz, 3MB L3, 1066MHz), 2GB, 320GB/7200rpm, Intel HD Graphics.]

My power meter was showing that I have 50% power left. But then, i got a message saying that as my battery is 6% my machine is going to hibernate. Then my power meter showed 6%. All my softwares are upto date.

Is it as serious issue of is it fine??? This same thing has repeated a couple of times.

Just for your info, I have couple of other issues also. Not sure if these are causing the issue with the battery.

• If my track point and touch pad are active, i get a "Synaptics TouchPad Enhancements has stopped working" error. Tried updating the drivers many times. But no luck. Now I have set to "only track point".
• My machine is rather slow and bumpy compared to my compaq with win xp sp2 running on dual core with 1gb ram. I know its not a proper comparison. I know win 7 is much diff compared to win xp.

I am not sure if these errors are related.

Pls advice.

[Colonel O'Neill]

The sudden decrease in battery life is probably a defective battery.

There are lots of reports of SynTPEnh.exe crashing randomly, but the newer drivers are supposed to have taken care of it.

Define slow?

[qbektrix]

When i swipe my finger in the reader during log in it takes about 1min just to load. With just firefox on 8 tabs and vlc playing music. The machine takes about 10 sec just to respond. For my winxp on 1gb ram, even 15 tabs was fine.

[Colonel O'Neill]

Is it better if you type in the password rather than using the fingerprint reader?

[qbektrix]

No visible difference. Both are same.