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"Junk" laptop
i have an acer TrevleMate 200T that was junked...
due to it being dropped. i managed to get most of the problems sorted out and it's now in at least usable condition... however the battery is dead and the internal connections are damaged in such a way as to prevent it from running off the external charger... what i did was open the battery case... disconnect the batteries and just run wires out which i have hooked to a 12.8v regulated supply... the machine has been running fine for several hours now... but the battery gauge/alarm keeps counting down and is now at 22%... though i've confirmed that the voltage is still 12.8 volts. i'm assuming that it must be gauging the battery state of charge merely from run time... but i;ve seen no where in the software or in the bios to adjust the parameters... no big deal...but just curious... i have a lot of experience with desktop machines...but only recently have gotten into repairing laptops |
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"philo" wrote in message ... i have an acer TrevleMate 200T that was junked... due to it being dropped. i managed to get most of the problems sorted out and it's now in at least usable condition... however the battery is dead and the internal connections are damaged in such a way as to prevent it from running off the external charger... snip oh....what the heck... i guess i'll just turn the battery monitor off and use a voltmeter if i decide to run the thing on an external battery rather than the supply |
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