Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 2.1.8.2 Conditioning and the Memory effect in NiMH batteries Next Document: 2.1.8.3 Battery Warning See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:57:47 -0700 From: Steven Lawson This is really screwy, but until I build a discharger it's worked for me: 1) boot into DOS mode (F8, command prompt only) 2) turn on drain mode with the popup function 3) run looping virus checks or something that moves the heads 4) wait till the Aero suspends 5) pop out the battery, pop it in, go to #1 At some point the Aero will do it's 'low battery' beep during the bootup. At this point, step #4 will never happen. Instead, the Aero will *EVENTUALLY* shut itself off (no, not a nasty low voltage crash, power management clicks it off intentionally) Believe it or not, once I got to this point my Aero ran for another 30 minutes before turning off! I did this a couple of times and my battery life appears to be back to where it used to be when it was new... Step #3 is just to make the system discharge faster - I can't imagine what that 30 minutes would have been without the heads seeking around. NOTE - the above is a pretty rude way around the power management so I can't recommend it. If you try it and YOUR Aero explodes into a million pieces (or fails in any other way) DON'T BLAME ME! - any other legalese to avoid court insert here - User Contributions:Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 2.1.8.2 Conditioning and the Memory effect in NiMH batteries Next Document: 2.1.8.3 Battery Warning Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Philip Wilk <PWilk-aerofaq@ZenSpider.com>
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