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Technical Issues / Re: Battery discharges on AC Been there Done that
August 29, 2006, 08:43:51 PM
Quote from: kf_man on August 29, 2006, 08:00:58 PM
In answer to your question before, there is a File Protection scheme that windows has, but it usually notifies you before it does it and allows you to ignore it.  Is there any sort of notification that this is happening?

No warning.  The file just changes and the date/time stamp reverts to a different time, but same date as my original file.

Rich
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Technical Issues / Re: Battery discharges on AC Been there Done that
August 28, 2006, 05:18:58 PM
Replacing the battery on my x1000 improved the situation, but did not completly solve the problem for me.  (I had already replaced the power cord.  That had no effect.)  The problem seemed to go away when I replaced the battery.  However, after about 8 hours of use, the battery began discharging again.  At first, wiggling the power cord in the PC socket helped for a while, but eventually the A/C would only work if I shut down the PC and restarted it.  Wiggling doesn't seem to have any effect anymore.  However, I don't think it's the power socket in the PC since I have the same problem when using the PC with the power cord connected through the dociking station.

I think this may be at least partially a Windows problem.  I have no problems when I boot from a Linux CD.  Also, I noticed that the battery driver file cmbatt.sys is not exactly the same as a back-up copy I made before the "battery discharges on AC" problem began.  I tried replacing it with the back up version of the file.  That seemed to fix the problem for a fraction of a second, but Windows immediately reverted right back to the bad version.  (I'm not sure how to stop Windows from reverting to the bad cmbatt.sys file.  I understand Windows maintains a hidden cache and "repairs" system files when they change.)

Rich
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