Help a girl out, will ya?

[severina2001]

I got more snowflakes! Thank you to tootiredtosleep, beathen, such_a_steph, besamislabios, darla_isabelle, qaf_fanatic, lunachickk, suzvoy and Ms. Anonymous for the Christmas cheer

Comments

[qaf_fanatic]

Yes, the laptop will work just on electricity even if your battery is completely dead.

Just be very, very, very careful about bumping the power cord.

Even for just a half a second it becomes disconnected to the power cord, your screen will shut down faster than the sonic boom, now that you don't have that "protection" of the battery as back up.

So if you really don't want to shell out the cash right away, i would recommend you get reacquainted with the save button, more so then ever.

*g*

[severina2001]

Thanks! I'll be a savin' fool. :)

[roxymeloni]

and backup everything onto a cd just in case!! my 2 cents :) I'm just happy to know I am not the only one in Canada without winter boots LOL We got 14 inches yesterday so I am hiding in the house.

[severina2001]

Whew! Thank you for the reassurance. :)

[shadownyc]

qaf_fanatic is absolutely right. In addition, if you have an external hard drive you should back up to it every day you save something new.

You may also want to go to a computer store and get the computer's battery checked. If it's failing you don't want more trouble and if there are any loose connections you want to know it.

[severina2001]

I can't afford to bring the computer in right now, so I'm just thankful that it'll still work without the battery! No external hard drive, but I can buy charge some disks on my credit card tomorrow and at least back everything up.

[amelialourdes]

My snowflake did not get to you! :(

[severina2001]

No. I'm sorry. I will consider it as given. :)

[amelialourdes]

:D

How've you been doing? Are you snowed in?

[severina2001]

I'm pretty good. This year is significantly better than last, though my apartment has pretty much gone to shit. LOL *repeats I-will-clean-today mantra*

No snow! They predicted a big winter storm and we got butkis. Bupkis? It IS freeeeeeeeeezing cold though. I'm hoping for snow for Xmas, at least. :)

How YOU doin'? :D

[faile02]

I second (third?) all that battery info, and just some extra knowledge, if you let the battery drain all the way down to zero (let the computer turn off), charge it up to full and then drain/charge again, you could retrain the battery back into holding a bit of a charge.

Also, I wouldn't take the battery out, no matter of how little a charge it's holding. That's the go-between in case you accidentally pull out the cord while you're working.

[severina2001]

I google-d before I posted the question, and could never find out the answer to MY question... but one of the things I did find was contradictory info about that. Some sites said to do what you said, and some said to NEVER let the battery drain all the way. ::sigh:: My main concern is that if the battery is dying, I'm thinking I should keep it as my backup for as long as possible (meaning, if it drains all the way, and is dying, it might not come back at all.)

I really hate technology. Like, a lot.