[Sussex] Dell Inspiron Battery Monitor (X)

[Steve Williams]

Derek,

Turn off all your BIOS power saving options, reboot into windows, turn off
all the windows power saving widgetry and then run XP until the battery
flakes out. You might be pleasantly suprised, and when you reoot XP it
should make more sense of the battery capacity.

Steve Williams.

-----Original Message-----
From: sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Derek Harding
Sent: 04 August 2003 08:47
To: SLUG
Subject: [Sussex] Dell Inspiron Battery Monitor (X)


Hi all,

I have an Inspiron which (except the winmodem) runs brilliantly while I'm
connected to the mains. However, although I have recompiled the kernel,
whenever I go over to battery power and run up XWindows it runs me about 5
minutes and then claims that the battery is about to go flat.

I close down (under battery power) and reboot into the BIOS configuration
(still under battery power) and the BIOS tells me that there is 97% capacity
left. As soon as I go back into XWindows it tells me I've run out of
battery.

Any ideas how I can reset the "monitor" to get over this problem? I
haven't tried to see if running in non-X will give the same symptoms.

--
Best wishes,
Derek

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