Maintaining Optimum Battery Health on your HP Business Notebook
Steph: Hi and welcome to HP How To For You, HP’s customer support vlog.
I’m Steph and this is Bill and we’re here to bring you tips, tricks,
and how-to information to help you get the most out of your HP products.
Bill: Today, we’re talking about how to maintain optimum battery health on your HP Notebook.
With a lot of us now working and studying from home,
our notebooks are often left in one location and are continuously plugged into AC power.
Steph: With many of us not traveling to and from an office anymore, we are leaving our
notebooks constantly plugged-in,
and this can impact the overall health and life of the notebook battery.
Steph: There are several factors that can impact battery health.
One is leaving your notebook continually plugged in to AC Power,
which can result in your battery being in a high “state-of-charge” over long periods of time.
This creates additional stress on the battery and can impact its overall health.
Second is long-term, continual exposure to elevated temperatures, which can occur when,
for example, the airflow of the unit is repeatedly obstructed.
We need to ensure that our notebook always has proper airflow and that none of the vents
are blocked or obstructed in any way.
Bill: To help mitigate these factors and provide users with optimal battery health,
HP has developed the HP Battery Health Manager BIOS feature which is available on all of
its business notebooks from 2016.
Steph: If you do not see the HP Battery Health Manger in your BIOS, you will need to update
your BIOS to the most current version available.
Not only will this keep your system fully up-to-date, it will include the HP Battery Health Manager
already set to the recommended “Let HP Manage My Battery Charging”.
To update your BIOS, visit the HP Support page, linked in our description below, to
find your notebook listed on the table.
Or watch the support video that we also have linked in our description below.
Bill: HP Battery Health Manager provides a number of options designed
to improve battery longevity and performance for various usage scenarios.
To best protect your investment, you should enable HP Battery Health Manager to either
“Let HP Manage My Battery Charging”,
If your system is less than a year old or you use it both on and off of AC Power.
Steph: or “Maximize MY Battery Health” if your system is more than a year old or
you are always connected to AC Power.
Steph: HP made a great how-to video about what each of these settings do and how to access
and select the appropriate HP Battery Health Manger option through your BIOS.
Check out the link to that video in our video description, or, if you’d rather search our YouTube page,
you can find it under the title of: Setting Up the Battery Health Management Feature for
Select HP Business Notebooks.
It walks you through the steps to achieve proper battery health.
Bill: It’s important to know that long term exposure to a high state-of-charge or elevated
temperatures can potentially accelerate battery swelling.
Steph: Battery swelling is simply the result of the generation of gases per the normal
degradation of the battery cell over time.
While a measured amount of battery degradation and swelling over time is normal and accounted
for in the design of the battery and the notebook itself,
long-term exposure to these factors can accelerate how quickly the battery swells.
Bill: While not a safety issue, if your notebook is already experiencing battery swelling,
which looks similar to the swelling on this notebook, discontinue use of the notebook
until the battery can be replaced.
You can contact HP to understand what battery replacement options are available to you.
Steph: We know that we’re already dealing with a lot of uncertainty and a new way of
working and learning in the home.
Prevention is the best step you can take to preserve your notebook’s battery.
So, remember to check your battery settings in your BIOS and make sure HP Battery Health
Manager is enabled to the recommended settings.
Steph: And that’s a wrap!
You can find more videos like this on our YouTube channel at youtube.com/hpcomputingsupport
You can also find more information on our support forum at
Bill: hp.com/supportforum
Steph: You can find us, and other people just like you, answering questions about your HP products.
Both: Bye!