Texas Instruments Extensa 600 Series - Manual (Page 67)

Conditioning the Battery
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The Duracell battery is either a Nickel-Metal-
Hydride (NiMH) DR35S or Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
DR201 rechargeable battery. While Li-Ion
batteries do not need conditioning, NiMH
batteries require occasional conditioning to
maintain a full battery charge. An
unconditioned NiMH battery may hold less than
half of full charge.
You should condition the battery when you first
use your computer and after every five to eight
shallow discharges, that is, after you use only a
small portion of the battery charge before
recharging the battery.
Follow this procedure to condition the battery.
1. Exit Windows 95 by selecting Restart in MS-
DOS Mode from the Shutdown menu.
2. Enter Setup by pressing the Setup hot key
(Fn+F1).
3. Set the
POWER MANAGEMENT FUNCTION
parameter to Disabled.
4. Disable the
BATTERY LOW SUSPEND
parameter.
5. Exit Setup using Esc to exit and save the
changes.
6. Allow the system to run down completely
until it powers off on its own.
7. Connect the AC power, and charge the battery
overnight.