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Hi everyone, Just a quick question to see if any of you have experienced this. While running under Windows/DOS and on two occasions now while doing a refresh discharge and subsequent charge, I have had my power managment software obtrusively disabled, and not by me. The battery icon becomes a dotted-line figure with no indication of current charge or capacity status. Attempts to call the fuel feature from Thinkpad features group gets the error message that the fuel program is disabled. To enable it, you are told to run the setup from DOS in the Windows directory and select DOS system with APM... this does work, but doesn't require any real change, DOS with APM is already selected. Can anyone explain what is happening here? It is quite disconcerting when trying to keep the battery life, and fuel readouts consistent with battery capacity and status and warning alarms... that is, to keep the fuel gauge system and warning beeps working and giving believable reports. I know that I can't be the only one that has trouble with these features. It's only a little thing, but can be a source of frustration. ------------------ By the way, I might mention a "tip" that the IBM help center gave me last year. My battery "time remaining" will often get out of sync with capacity and readout of the fuel gauge and the warning beeps. For example, system will start beeping that the battery is on it's last legs when in fact, the readout says there is 50% left. I realize that part of the problem is that my battery is degrading over time. But anyway, the tip is essentially to remove the battery, turn off the switch momentarily and then back on. When putting back in, immediately do discharge followed by charge. Parameters on the fuel gage and the warning beeps are then back in "sync" for a time. The warning beeps don't come on until battery capacity is down near the low end as would be expected. If you just do a discharge and charge, that seems to help a little but not quite as well as first cycling the battery switch. The switch "cycling" seems to straighten things out, but I wonder if I it wise to follow this procedure. Perhaps someone can comment. Regards and thanks, Joe ejd@cs.ust.hk