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Old 20-10-2006, 20:35   #4
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Re: advent laptop
Here's my thoughts... been using a laptop for work for more years than I care to remember now
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Originally Posted by jane View Post
1. is it safe to leave the power cord in constantly and have the green button light stay on? Yeah, it's not really gonna make that much difference. My lappy is left plugged in 8 hrs a day at work. Some colleagues don't take their laptops home so leave it permanently plugged in. Not had a problem yet (touch wood)

2. when i pull out the lead and put it back in and the light comes on red should i wait for it to turn green before booting up the pc? Think this is just your laptop saying it's running off battery instead of the mains, and when you plug it back in it'll start charging the battery for you again. Don't bother waiting, I don't. You can use the laptop even when the battery isn't charged to 100% without it causing any problems what so all.

3. i have read somewhere that having the pc on standby and the power lead attatched ruins the battery, is this true? Dunno, maybe... but I'd imagine it'll shorten it's overall life by a short amount, and I'd suggest you'd either have outgrown and sold the laptop before then, or that some other component on it will have broken before the battery goes to the big recycling centre in the sky.

4. if the battery did die completely would the pc work completely the same with just the power lead or do you always have to have a charged battery in there? It'll work fine just running from the mains without a battery - the only problem is if you accidentally unplug the cable then your laptop will shut down immediately (like a desktop PC would) whereas with a battery installed, you'd carry on as normal and not lose your work. You can test running your lappy without the battery by just removing it - trust me, you won't break it

sorry about all the questions, and your prob thinking why dosent she just read the manual like and normal person!! well i have but it dosent say anything about this in the book!! anyway i trust you guys more

advent 7104 notebook pc

thanks guys
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