IBM 390x With Win98 - battery problem...

Dell plans to announce a recall of 4.1 million batteries worldwide. Dell has identified a potential
issue associated with certain batteries sold with Dell Latitude™, Inspiron™, XPS™ and Dell Precision
Mobile Workstation™ notebook computers. Here's a list of the affected models: Latitude: D410,
D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810 Inspiron: 6000, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300,
500m, 510m, 600m, 6400, E1505, 700m, 710m, 9400, E1705 Dell Precision: M20, M60, M70 and M90 mobile
workstations XPS XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170 and XPS M1710 Have your batter...

I'm currently using a regular power surge protector for my computers. I have been thinking of
buying a UPS battery backup instead. Is there any big advantage over having a regular surge
protector? I mean, if I do get a surge, will the UPS backup still be in good condition for me to
shut my computer down properly? Most of the lower end UPS backups I've seen say the power run
time is 4-10 minutes long. Why does it take 4-8 hours to charge it up to 90% and give so little
power usage at the end? What should I look for in terms of joules, VA, and other terms I see be...

Apparently the batteries used for powermac and ibooks in 2003 may also have the exploding trick up
their sleeves. These batteries, like Dell's, were made by Sony Corp. Here is the link.
https://depot.info.apple.com/powerbook/batt...ange/index.html I have Tibook, so I'm searching
to see if my laptop is effected....

I had my laptop for over a year and suddenly one day it won't hold the charge in the battery
anymore. So I thought it was a bad battery...sent it in to be repaired and the techs said it's
not the battery. Tested ok. They said it was the charging port. Warranty was over already so I dealt
with the issue...about 3 years now. I want to know how to repair this. Do I have to change the whole
motherboard to replace that battery compartment area? Or is there an easier way to do this? The
laptop is a Prostar 6194. Thanks....

Before continuing with my post, I must admit that this may not be the appropriate forum for posting
this topic, however, I couldn't find one that's why posting it here. There are four types
of batteries available for mobile phones: Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) These are least expensive of
rechargable batteries, but suffer from inherent shortcomings like memory effect. Here, if the
battery is not fully drained before recharging, the unused portion crystallizes hence the complete
capacity of the battery is not fully used. Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) This technolo...

i got a really old sager multimedia notebook computer from a friend (made in 1997) and it is in good
condition and i want to fix it up for the hell of it. i cant find anythign on it though because of
how old it is... --->heres the info i got off the stickers on the notebook s/n I740NPD1569 its a
multimedia notebook computer model # 862 make: sager (sager site says its a np8620)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- i need a hard drive for it
(the one that was in there is only a 1.44gb and it is failing. i also need to get ram for it, ...