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Eddy Lin wrote: > > I just got my replacement standby battery from IBM Parts and install it. > Battery hot swap in suspend mode is now working in Windows 95 and DOS. > Apparently, the original standby battery in my 701 is dead. My machine used > to lose power if I switch battery in suspend mode which the manual claims I > can do. I didn't bother to send in my machine to Easyserve because I need > it on a day to day basis. I just ordered the battery for $6. It even came > with an extra standby battery door. It did take 2 weeks. Hope this will > help those that have problems with hot swapping their 701 battery. My > machine configuration is a 701C with 24MB RAM and 1.44GB 3LP > drive(upgraded). > > Eddy Lin One thing to look out for, in Win95 original build, the OS doesn't power down the PCMCIA slots properly when going into suspend, so you may still have problems doing a hot swap if there are cards in the slot and suspend time can be reduced. There are two fixes to this if you have this problem. First you can use a FN key combo to manually flag the PCMCIA card slots to power off. I found the answer in a text file hidden on the IBM site. The key combo is Fn+F11 immediately followed by Fn+Enter. This manual key combo worked for me. The other fix is to install Win95 OS/R 2. Both which seems to address this problem and takes care of powering down the PCMCIA slots automatically when suspending. Both of these fixes worked for me (after IBM finally fixed the hardware problem on my machine). Happy swapping. Greg A.