Battery Life Problem

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From: Battery Question (Question_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 19:45:01 -0800

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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