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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:22, Peter Jones wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#0000ff" SIZE="2"><I>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></FONT>
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I did upgrade the battery controller. Do you know any good downloadable discharge applications?</FONT>
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