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[jokim@CHS.CUSD.Claremont.Edu: Re: Suspend modes]

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 19:55:04 -0800 (PST)
From: "John Kim"  <jokim@CHS.CUSD.Claremont.Edu>
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To: bruce@objy.com
Cc: tp750@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re:  Suspend modes
In message Mon, 21 Mar 94 11:43:00 PST, Bruce Reed <bruce@objy.com>  writes:
> running OS/2 yesterday and put the machine (750C) into suspend at about
> 10:00. At that point it claimed I had a battery that was 80% charged.
> I opened the lid at about 3:30 and found the system totally dead. I
> thought that suspend mode was pretty thrifty, but I guess not. I've
> got 12 Mbytes and I guess it has to keep that and the CPU alive in
> a limited fashion (is there an SL mode that just keeps the current
> context, like registers and so forth?) That would seem to require
> little power though. Anyone else had similar experiences?
I've got 12MB as well, and I get about 2 days in suspend with a full
battery.  I think there are a couple possibilities for what happened.
The most likely is that the battery gauge was off when you put it into
suspend - it was reading 80% when there was really only 30% or something
like that.  I've noticed this happens frequently when I charge a lot of
times without draining the battery, but I don't know if that's the cause.
The other possibility is that the TP just turned itself off.  I've had this
happen a couple times too.  My guess is that the computer misreads the
amount of voltage coming off the battery, thinks it's drained, and shuts
off.
10 seconds to come out of hibernate?  It's beginning to sound better and
better.  I need a bigger hard drive... :)
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