Satellite A200 short battery life time - it discharges very quickly

Today I restored my Satellite A200 to factory settings.
This is about the 4th time I've done this in the last 2 years.
Now my battery life is screwed up.
100% charged with about 10 minutes remaining (image: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3548/100g.png)
85% charged with 8 minutes remaining (image: http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/723/46880270.png)
What's going on?
I'm afraid if I restore to factory settings again to 'fix' the problem it will only make it worse and end up being 2 minutes remaining at fully charged.

Hi!
I agree with Jayjay.
If you have the same problems with battery of your sisters notebook its not a battery issue.
Im not sure but I think the only problem could be the mainboard but try to update the BIOS first.
On the Toshiba website you can find all updates for your notebook:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Download Drivers
If it doesnt work you can search for an ASP on the Toshiba website. The technicians can check your notebook.
Good luck!
Bye

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> I would like to ask a few questions about my system: first of all, the cooling fan is running in my opinion too often: almost continuously, with brakes of 2-3 seconds. Is this normal?
Im an owner of a Satellite A210. Its similar to the A215. The A210 is a European model and the A215 belongs to the US notebook series.
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> But the curious thing is that so named "Core" temperature is oscillating from the beginning between 45deg and over 52deg! The fan starts each time the core temperature is rising over 50deg and stops when the temperature reaches 45deg. Is this behavior normal???
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The temperature could arise up to 70-80degrees while playing a game. So dont worry about the temperature.
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Generally the battery life time depends on the notebooks usage.
While playing games or watching movies the battery would discharge much faster.
Anyway, your notebook was equipped with high-performance devices and as far as I know the Vista was preinstalled on this series. Both factors (high performance devices CPU and GPU) + Vista OS need a lot of battery power. Vista needs more notebook resources as the Win XP and therefore notebooks with Vista OS run shorter on battery as the notebooks with preinstalled Win XP.
Last but not least you have to know that there are different battery models A stronger battery with higher *mA* value would help to run the notebook longer using the battery power.
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Bye

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