[wellylug] Laptop Battery Problems....

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:22, Peter Jones wrote:

> And I saw similar things with NEC Versa notebooks. There was a BIOS
> upgrade to fix the charging problem and also a DOS application that
> would fully discharge the battery to allow it to be properly
> refreshed. Couldn't be done under Windows as power management would
> get in the way.  It was sometimes necessary to run the
> charge-discharge cycle a couple of times. If after that and the BIOS
> update there were still battery probs then the battery was replaced
> under warranty


I did upgrade the battery controller. Do you know any good downloadable
discharge applications?

--- Jethro

dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/

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