Battery Life Problem

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I have recently rebuilt my Dell Latitude C600. Before rebuilding my computer
my 2 smart batteries lasted over 2 hours each. After installing XP
Professional Operating System and Office 2003, the battery life has been
reduced to less than 5 minutes.

I do not think that it is a problem with my hardware, as it would be very
unlikely that both batteries would die at the same time. Only one of them
was in my computer while I was rebuilding it. I have seen an issue for XP
regarding Short Battery Life on Your Pentium III-M Tualatin Processor
Computer, but I have installed SP2 so this should not be an issue even if I
do have the hardware defined here.

Any help or guidance in how to fix this issue would be greatly appreciated.
 
Battery said:
I have recently rebuilt my Dell Latitude C600. Before rebuilding my
computer my 2 smart batteries lasted over 2 hours each. After
installing XP Professional Operating System and Office 2003, the
battery life has been reduced to less than 5 minutes.

I do not think that it is a problem with my hardware, as it would be
very unlikely that both batteries would die at the same time. Only
one of them was in my computer while I was rebuilding it. I have
seen an issue for XP regarding Short Battery Life on Your Pentium
III-M Tualatin Processor Computer, but I have installed SP2 so this
should not be an issue even if I do have the hardware defined here.

Any help or guidance in how to fix this issue would be greatly
appreciated.
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Make sure you are right..
Boot with a DOS boot diskette from www.bootdisk.com (or CD) and see how long
it works in DOS.
 
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