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Hello all, I seem to remember seeing John Kim mentioning a similar problem with his 701 on comp.sys.laptops, but not recieving any answer. Synopsis: My system has lately, on an intermittent basis, been shutting off with the claim that the battery's discharged, despite displaying an almost full charge only seconds before. I called IBM tech Monday, and they seem to feel I'd set up conflicting parameters in the BIOS. (I recently flashed up to 3o). While I did have battery mode set for Power Saver with sound, pcmcia, and modem off and AC mode for everything on and processor set to 25/50, I don't see how that could cause a problem. I shuffled the settings and things have been fine until today, when the laptop again shut off moments after reading that it had a 1:16 charge left. Since then, it's been fine, but I called IBM and now they want me to EZServe it. To me, this doesn't sound like hardware, because the problem is intermittent. It can't be the battery, I have to NiMHs and a "super" NiCad and it's done this to all of them. One tech implied the system isn't charging properly due to the DCD (?) card, and I have noticed that I have to jiggle the adapter a little to get the charging light to come on. Only other symptom I've noticed is occasional mouse rebellion - occasionally, while scrolling a document, the screen keeps scrolling after I stop clicking. Other times, during mouse-intensive operations, the system has locked up and had to reboot. This as all been since Monday. Any input? Emanuel epbrown@suba.com laptop central: www.suba.com/~epbrown/