re: Battery Control in Xp
Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 11:19 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
As Steve mentions, some tweaking of the battery control by the motherboard is done
depending on the driver options installed by the manufacturer. For safety reasons,
the hardware and BIOS control the charging of the battery as well as other critical
functions within the battery such as, load monitoring, current/charging draw, heat
etc, and it (the hardware) communicates with a chip built into the battery to monitor
different information supplied to the hardware (they aren't "dumb" batteries anymore)
They even remember the charge/discharge cycles and warn the hardware when the batery
is coming close to the end of their life (depleting capacity).. You wouldn't want
XP or external sources in control through software that is error prone.
XP is only monitors the battery state as reported by the hardware, and sets options
for operating system to perform an action, depending on the charge (or any other)
state of the battery when available.
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- re: Battery Control in Xp (Steve: Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 10:34 am)
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