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    asus m6n/e 2nd battery questions...

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by diabolical7, Aug 4, 2004.

  1. diabolical7

    diabolical7 Notebook Guru

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    i am looking to purchase a 2nd battery the one that fits in the
    removable bay... but my question is how much longer does it extend
    the life of the notebook... and is it useful in the long run...
     
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  2. highlandsun

    highlandsun Notebook Evangelist

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    It is 3/4 the capacity of the main battery, so it gives you 75% more run time. Is it useful? It is to me. It extends my unplugged runtime to about 6 hours in a typical email/browser workload.

     
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    diabolical7 Notebook Guru

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    but see my issue is when i run on battery i only get 600mhz with
    high performance is that the same with u? cuz i think something
    might be wrong unless others are in the same boat as i am...
    would the 2nd battery actually let me run super performance mode?
     
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    No, the type of battery wouldn't affect CPU speed at all. You have some other problem. Make sure your machine has the current BIOS (I think 203a is the latest). If you installed the OS yourself, make sure you installed the Intel chipset drivers properly. If your OS was preinstalled, then your vendor should have taken care of that already... Make sure you have the Asus ACPI utilities installed, otherwise you won't have any control over standby/suspend/hibernate...
     
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