[ale] laptop diagnostics

[Paul Cartwright]

On 01/20/2011 11:28 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Hmm. I've seen laptops (forget brands) that wouldn't run at all off
> power brick if the battery was totally dead and nonchargeable. Symptoms
> are similar to those described here. Try putting battery in the fridge
> for a few hours then letting it sit in the laptop with the power cable
> attached but system off for a hour to maybe get a trickle of a charge.
> If it then boot, get a new battery. For a while, Batteries Plus would
> rebuild battery packs if you would remove the plastic case.

I have a 4-year-old Dell XPS laptop, and I run it without the battery..
I think I read somewhere that if you run it plugged into A/C and have
the battery in all the time, that it will forget its memory..



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