--- Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org> wrote: > I've got a laptop that has
been powered down thoroughly a couple of
> times
> (the clock was about a week or two off when I brought it back up!).
> 
> It seems that the battery indicator has become de-calibrated.  It
> won't go above
> 12%.  (It would read ~100% previously, when full.)
> 
> I called the manufacturer (Gateway 2000), but they had zero
> information for me.
> There's a "battery learning software" tool that you're supposed to
> run under
> MS-DOS for about 16 hours about once a year to calibrate the battery
> indicator.
> I don't even have the floppy disk for that, and Gateway didn't seem
> to know where
> I might get the software.
> 
> (I'm not the original owner---my brother is---and it's a long time
> out of warranty
> by now.  But I thought that Gateway might know something about their
> own systems.)
> 
> I googled around a bit, but didn't find anything promising, so:
> 
> Does anyone know anything about this?
> 
> I don't know if my battery is really only capable of 1/8th the
> capacity that
> it had when new, or if the calibration is just totally messed up.
> 
> I thought that someone might have reverse-engineered this by now for
> some laptops.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." 
http://www.olib.org/~rkr/

If you can get the utility from gateway, it might run under freedos.
Caldera (now SCO?) used to have a dos version you could try for free
also, but I doubt it is still available.

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