Hi Roy, Sounds like you probably have a spare battery pack. Take it into a "battery depot" and have them rebuild it. At 12:38 PM 12/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks for the responses. >I do leave the laptop in hibernate mode when I can. I don't think that >my computer has a suspend mode. Part of my problem is that the battery >is in need of replacement. Just replace the battery you say? First of >all, I just replaced the battery this summer. The replacement has been >nothing like the original. Actually, the first replacement didn't work >at all. This one, no. 2, would hold a charge for maybe a half hour. Not >enough to even get through a tuning. Also, they are not so easy to >find. I have a Compaq Presario 305. It is a thin little lightweight >computer, (about the size of a Sony Vaio 505). The computer itself has >been great. No complaints, except that Compaq must have only made these >for about a month. None of the big battery websites have it. When I >contacted Compaq this summer, they didn't even have them. The one I got >was through CompUSA, where I bought the computer. It was still under >the extended warranty at the time, so I got it for free, but the listed >price was $369. So, I am deciding whether to spend the money on >another battery, or on a Pocket PC. Maybe I will look for one of the >battery replacement places that have been mentioned. > >Roy Peters, RPT >Cincinnati >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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