I wrote:
> The battery reads fully charged (full blocks and
> battery/plug picture in the control strip) when run
w/
> AC adaptor attached and battery in. But when I try
to
> start up with the battery, I get the startup chime,
> but 5 seconds later it shuts off. Is this normal
for
> a dead battery?
reply:
>You can try to recondition them a few times
>from the application by the same name and that
>rescued one of my batteries. Otherwise they're pretty
>much useless unless you can dissassemble them and
>repair them (which some on the list have said they
>have done, but I don't think that's done too often).
>You can buy new batteries for the Duo from Battery
>Plus.
Dave, thanks much for the tip about Battery Plus.
Now I have another question: What is the deal with
Batttery Recondition, anyway. These batteries are
NiMH, which do not have memories like NiCad's. So why
have this program? Now that it is clear that
intellectually I do not believe that this program has
any beneficial effect, you know I darn-well tried it!
(held my breath, prayed to the Nickel-Metal Gods,
etc.)
So here is my question (finally), what is
suppossed to happen when you run Battery Recondition?
My screen started flickering on and off, then snow,
then all kinds of weird spooky stuff on the screen.
The speaker was emiting a sad little death rattle, and
the cursor was frozen - and command-period did
nothing. If this is all normal, great, maybe I can
save my battery - But the way the computer reacted
just felt bad.
Incedentally (I have no idea how to spell that),
does anyone want to give me a tip on dismantalling and
repairing the battery? If it is dead anyway, I can't
go wrong!
thanks for everything and sorry about the bandwidth
-ocie
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