[sf-lug] Advice on running a laptop on AC only, without a battery (dead)

[Alex Kleider]

try batteryrefill.com

(sorry, Rick, I hit reply instead of reply all:-(
alex
a_kleider at yahoo.com


--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Advice on running a laptop on AC only, without a battery (dead)
> To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:27 AM
> Quoting Owen Pietrokowsky (opietro at yahoo.com):
> 
> > I received an older laptop, a Compaq Evo N600c,
> yesterday. 
> 
> Not bad for a 2003 laptop:  1.2 GHz Pentium III, 256
> MB RAM standard,
> expandable up to 576 MB (by putting a 512 MB 133 MHz
> SO-DIMM in slot 2)
>  or even 1 GB (by removing the existing 256 MB stick from
> slot 1, and
> putting 512 MB sticks in both slots).  Internal modem
> might be a
> winmodem, but at least is on a minPCI socket, so you can
> replace it if
> you wish.  Hard drive is somewhere from 20-40
> GB.  Video chipset is ATI
> Mobility Radeon.
> 
> > It worked fine today, then it suddenly wouldn't boot.
> Previous owners
> > have had trouble with a loose power cord, and the
> battery (I'm told)
> > is dead. When I take the battery out it works fine on
> AC only. Is it
> > safe to use the laptop without a battery at home and
> outside? 
> 
> I think so.
> 
> > (I can't afford a new battery and it's easier to carry
> around a laptop
> > sans a heavy battery....)
> 
> Really?  They're only around $60, if you shop
> around.  Worth it, I
> think.
> 
> 
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