LAPTOP FORUM

Dear Friends,

Ive a 6cell Lithium Ion battery on my Compaq M2002AL laptop. I keep
that connected to my computer during my work even when the AC adaptor
is ON. I never take that out. Initially my battery used to say it has
1hr 40min of back up time left at my Microsoft windows xp operating
system. Now after a year of prolonged use it has about 48 min of time
left when fully charged.

But today I wanted to test out things for sure. I used my laptop even
when the Microsoft XP said theres only 0% of charge left in my
battery. Even after 20min my laptop continued to work very much
fine...................!!!

Whats the normal gap thats set in the XP opertating system... from
the actual cut-off time. I dont mind the battery getting destroyed in
actual. Does the XP operating system give the actual details about the
charge left????

If someone has already studied this please let me know..........

Thanks!
Ganesh J. Acharya

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