Re: Charging 701C when powered off?

[whittle@usc.edu (Randy Whittle)]

At 7:20 AM 4/1/96, Vaidy Sunderam wrote:

>When I plug my 701C to the ac adapter, it wseems to charge
>the battery only when the computer is powered on. Has anyone
>encountered this or know how to fix it? Thanks
>
>Vaidy Sunderam

        Its not a bug, its a feature!   ;-)

        Oddly enough, the 701C (and it says this in the manual) does *not*
charge the battery unless the machine is on.  It can be in suspend (not
hibernate), but as long as the machine is *on*, it will charge--if the
machine is off in any way (including hibernate), the battery does not
charge.

        Its just the way its made.  I don't know why.



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