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Old 01-02-2011, 09:51 AM   #1
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prefere one battery over the other


hello, i have 2 batteries in my laptop. one small and one large. unfortunately the small one is allwayse used up first before it switches to the large one. i would like to enforce the opposite behaviour. can anyone tell me how?

hardware: panasonic toughbook cf-30k
 
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hello, i have 2 batteries in my laptop. one small and one large. unfortunately the small one is allwayse used up first before it switches to the large one. i would like to enforce the opposite behaviour. can anyone tell me how?

hardware: panasonic toughbook cf-30k
No, this isn't something that's handled through software, or through ANY OS, as far as I know. Can you do this on Windows???

Power behavior is controlled via the hardware...you might look in your system BIOS, and see if there's something there.
 
  


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