From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue May 12 1998 - 01:31:00 EDT
James..
the switch turns the batery 'cpu' off, so it does not drain it when out of the
machine..
James H. E. Maugham wrote:
> On 11 May 98 at 21:21, James Mckenzie wrote:
>
> > Pop the keyboard open and remove the battery. My guess is that it has
> > gone the way of a shorted out NiMH battery should go and got very, very hot.
> > If this does not fix the problem, call IBM EZ-Serve. You might be lucky
> > and the system is under warrenty.
>
> Much praise upon you kinsman. A combination of removing the battery and pushing
> the reset button has restored my baby to her former vigah!
>
> I'll have to search through the other batteries I have for another functional
> one.
>
> Ahem, the following is an admittedly dumb question, but ignorance will not be
> forestalled. Do the switches on IBM batteries actually serve any useful
> function? On all of my other laptops they served only as an indicator of
> charge/nocharge and weren't actually connected to anything internally.
>
> Thanks again for all the assistance.
>
> James
>
> James H. E. Maugham, V.P.
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