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>> but the displayed remaining battery time >> does not jibe with reality. As soon as the battery reaches the >> red level (30%), it's time to switch to AC power or the system >> shuts down quickly. This happened under both Win 3.1 and >> Win95. > >I had this problem once early on. I switched to my second >battery to see if it might be a battery problem. The second >battery discharged and recharged just fine, 100% -> 0%. When I >stuck the original battery it, it too worked just fine. > Same here, but under OS/2 Warp. I will never put Window on my computer again. But anyways, I distinctly remember one time it went from 63% to 0% (this is the 3rd or so battery, before that battery warranty expired), or sometimes it would go from 100 to 0 like you said, but if I kept the machine busy (moving the mouse), or typing, it would last like 45 minutes or something like that. >A couple months ago, the battery would show 100%, but quickly >dropped to 0% about 1 minute after I took it off AC. Plugging >it back into AC would show the charge beginning 0% to about 5% >at which point it would jump to 100%. Plugging in my new >battery did not help. Since I rarely used the machine anymore, >I just left it on AC and a few weeks later it seemed to be >charging normally again. > >I suspect the problem is with the charging mechanism built into >the 701. Perhaps it's reading the battery voltage incorrectly, >or somehow it thinks you have a NiCd when you have a NiMH or >vice versa. > I wouldn't be supprised if that's what is is. >> Built-in modem: Dialing in under Win95 to our NT4.0 RAS, I get >> disconnected every 4-5 minutes with a host hang-up. This >> doesn't happen to others who dial in with other equipment. >> Once, just once, I stayed connected for 20 minutes before >> being cut off. I suspect the modem, maybe some sort of power >> save or something is cutting in. It seems too regular to be >> line noise or similar. This happens with both battery and AC >> power. > >This problem is well documented on this list. :-) > With ALL operating systems.:-( >It has something to do with LAPM compression. The modem is >actually a software modem using a DSP chipset (kinda like the >MWave except the software is read off ROM or something instead >of loaded by the OS). Our guess was that there's a bug in the >modem software or the DSP just isn't capable of doing LAPM >compression along with a 14.4 or 19.2 connection. > I like a PCMCIA modem better, though. A few times I had to resort to a 2500 or 9600bps external, and before that, an IBM PCMCIA 2400 (slow, but very reliable). -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 25 Processes with 87 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 21h 18m 53s 62ms.