<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Thank you, Ron!   I have two laptops in this condition, I tried the same solution--getting a new battery--on one.  The other lost it's hard drive--including Cybertuner.  Took it to a repair shop where they installed more memory and Windows XP---big mistake!  I was just starting back to school to study hearing full-time, and had most of my hard drive data backed up, so didn't worry about Cybertuner--I wouldn't be tuning for awhile.   Now that I've graduated, I would like to tune some again, but Cybertuner is gone and XP takes up most of the machine--AND it won't run on a battery charge long enough to get across the room!  Now I at least know what to do about that-- Thank you! Diane Diane Hofstetter > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:56:51 -0500 > From: rnossaman@cox.net > To: Pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: LCD Frisbee > > > Another minor saga in the life of SuperFutz! > > For years, my old Compaq laptop wouldn't run for more than > about five or ten minutes on a battery charge, so I just kept > it on the charger when I used it. Finally, it started getting > strange and had a couple of minor psychotic episodes that > prompted me to go battery shopping. A new Lithium-ion battery, > fully charged, and it fired right up - for about a half hour, > then blinked out suddenly. I dinked around with it off and on > for a couple of days, then just ignored it for another week, > putting off the revelation that it was fried for as long as I > could. This afternoon, glaring at it as I walked past, a brain > cell belatedly fired. *CMOS*, it said. Well, duh. So I got the > thing apart this afternoon without breaking anything > important, pulled sub assemblies until I found the tiny button > cell, went out and got a replacement, and put the thing back > together with no major parts left over. It works. Slowly, like > it always did. You'd think as many desktop systems as I've put > together, upgraded, salvaged, cannibalized, and resurrected > through the years, I'd have thought of the CMOS battery > sooner. Argh... > > Ron N </body> </html>