How to Check HP Battery Health (HP Battery Diagnostics)

Maybe you have noticed a sudden change in the battery life of your HP laptop, or you just want to find out about the actual battery state of your HP laptop. Whatever your personal reason might be, testing HP laptop battery health is pretty straightforward. So, in this guide, you will learn how to check HP battery health.

Meanwhile, laptop batteries will last a year to several years depending on use, and if you’re always on the go, you can not be able to say if you don’t get life out of your laptop battery the way you used to.

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Check HP Laptop Battery Health

There are many ways to check HP laptop battery health like using HP Hardware Diagnostics but in this guide, I will show you checking HP battery health using HP Support Assistant.

HP Battery Check is a utility in HP Support Assistant that provides a simple but accurate test of the battery in Windows. To use HP Support Assistant to check HP laptop health then follow the below steps:

Step 1. Search for HP Support Assistant in the Start menu and click Open. HP Support Assistant is installed on HP laptops. If not then click here to download. Once downloaded, install it.

Step 2. Select your device from the list. In my case, it’s HP G62 Notebook PC.

Step 3. Select Battery.

Step 4. Click on Run battery check.

Step 6. Wait until the battery check is completed.

Step 6. After the battery testing process, you’ll see the results. In my case, my HP laptop is showing Replace.

View Battery via HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI

• Restart your HP laptop, press the F2 key then click Component Tests in the main menu.

• In the list of Component Tests, click Power.

Power

• In the list of Power Tests, select Battery.

•  On the Battery Test page, click Run once.

Run once

• The Battery Test begins. The Battery Test takes about two minutes. The Battery Calibration, if needed, requires 2 to 4 hours. You can cancel at any time by pressing the Esc key.

Wrapping Up

That’s it. This was a quick tutorial guide on how to check HP battery health. Using HP Support Assistant software, you can easily know about your HP laptop battery’s health. However, HP Support Assistant is installed on HP laptops, if not then you can download it from the HP Support Assistant website.

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