[wellylug] Laptop Battery Problems....

[Peter Jones]

The NEC one was called discharge.com. It *might* be available from their
PackardBell / NEC support website (in Holland IIRC) I might even still have
it on diskette at home somewhere - will have a look. Failing that I could
try a guy who still does the NEC PCs

-----Original Message-----
From: Jethro Carr [mailto:dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2003 9:47 a.m.
To: LUG
Subject: RE: [wellylug] Laptop Battery Problems....


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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