From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2001 - 12:29:43 EDT
> 2) What is the best way to deep-discharge the battery? I usually
> just leave
> it on and W2K shuts it down with 3% remaining or so. Is it safe/advisable
> to, alternatively, leave the PC in the BIOS setup screen, to allow the
> battery to run down? On my Win98 PCs, I just boot into Safe Mode Command
> Prompt Only and let 'em die. W2K doesn't allow me to do this usually - I
> don't think I've ever been in Safe Mode Command Prompt only on this PC.
If you're looking for something in Win2K comparable to the safe mode command
prompt (i.e. booting into DOS), press F8 when you see the bars going across
the bottom of the screen in text mode as Win2K boots. This will bring up a
boot menu that you can leave the machine in. It's running in real mode at
that point, so it ought to behave just like a DOS prompt.
I would guess that the BIOS setup screen is equivalent for the purpose of
running the battery down. That's what I've used myself.
-Mike
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:57:34 EST