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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have come across a few compaqs with
battery indication problems. Although I haven’t worked on them my
guess would be a problem around the battery management chip/sensing circuits.
I had a “MECER” machine in SA, - many people in the company had –
and you could not believe the battery info on any of those machines.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I also know of one older machine
where the owner claims loading newer/appropriate drivers sorted things
out. I did not see this happen, but the guy (although not a hardware
buff), certainly knows how to upgrade his own machines, so I would not dispute
his story. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Test Development Engineer</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Jethro Carr
[mailto:dodocaptain@paradise.net.nz] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 24 September 2003
7:24 a.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> LUG<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [wellylug] Laptop
Battery Problems....</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Wed, 2003-09-24 at
06:46, Centurion Computer Technology Ltd wrote: </span></font></p>
<pre style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><font size=3 color="#737373"
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#737373;font-style:italic'>what sort of battery is it? If the cells are NiCad then you have to</span></font></i></pre><pre
style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><font size=3 color="#737373" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#737373;font-style:italic'>fully discharge them every time to maintain a decent battery life,</span></font></i></pre><pre
style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><font size=3 color="#737373" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#737373;font-style:italic'>otherwise you get poor performance as you experience. </span></font></i></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
36.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>No,
it's a Lithium.<br>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>--- Jethro<br>
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<a href="%20http:/homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/">dodocaptain@paradise.net.nz</a><br>
<a href="%20http:/homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/">homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/</a></span></font></p>
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