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Old Jul 7, 2010, 8:17 pm
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Originally Posted by adelauro
Good Evening Box.

Question for the more technically minded among us:

Our IT people sent out an email today warning us not to let the battery on an HP laptop discharge all the way down to 0%. They claim they received some sort of bulletin from HP that this could potentially cause damage to the laptop and/or the battery. Anyone ever heard of such a thing?
It's possible. Some of the circuitry used in batteries doesn't play well with others when the battery is completely discharged. But I'd have to see the actual HP bulletin to know.
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