It's not a Dell, is it?

Their laptop batteries have a built-in timer which basically turns them off after so many charges, even if there's nothing wrong with it (There are ways around it). However, if you have had it constantly plugged in, the battery will be toast anyway. You can probably pick up a cheap one on Ebay for a couple of bucks.

Posted By: Iwan Husarmi on September 14th 2006 at 22:10:01

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Really crap OT but anyone got a copy of Windows NT4? (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:02:14
- If you can get a copy of Win ME, I've got a legit licence for it... (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 21:57:52
  - That (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:59:30
    - Licence key won't necessarily work. (General Chat) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, Sep 14, 22:02:34
      - Build ? Fucking shoddy. Battery says charging, but doesn't. And it's only a 1Ghz P3... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:06:43
        
        It's not a Dell, is it? (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Sep 14, 22:10:01
        
        No - it's an old PC World Advent hand-me-down from my father in law... (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:14:59
        
        Really? (General Chat) - Tomblander, Sep 14, 22:14:37
        
        Could well be it, particularly if it just stopped working (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Sep 14, 22:26:39
        
        feck that for a game of souljers (General Chat) - Tomblander, Sep 14, 22:53:49
        
        Alternatively... (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:59:01
- Save yourself the heartache (General Chat) - Iwan Husarmi, Sep 14, 21:16:19
  - Prob is (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:20:55
    - Linux then. (General Chat) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, Sep 14, 21:50:11
      - Never EVER installed Linux on a machine. (General Chat) - romayellow, Sep 14, 21:56:42
        
        go for Fedora or Ubuntu (n/m) (General Chat) - scruffy, Sep 14, 22:06:21
        
        Debian? (General Chat) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, Sep 14, 22:01:52
        
        Ubuntu is the one for beginners that PC Format recommends. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 14, 22:07:16
        
        It also based on Debian, but yeah, it's the best (n/m) (General Chat) - scruffy, Sep 14, 22:27:20

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