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Dual batteris with 3 batteries to use?

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So i have 2 main batteries, and bought a bay battery so that I wouldnt need to shut down to swap batteries
The other week it seemed pretty good, i would swap out the main battery when it got low, and the bay battery (although drained) would allow me to remove Main #1 and put #2 in without hibernating...
but today I realized that might be a fluke..
I pulled the main, and since the other was drained, it hibernated!! Grrrr After I rebooted it, it resumed, and decided that the battery was now low and Again hibernated!!...
Is there a way around this?
I realize I guess I could turn off auto hibernating, but is there a setting i could use, or a program that would drain the main first, or allow me to pause hibernating to avoid this shut down?
post #2 of 4
You probably have your auto-hibernate threshold set too high in Power properties. You can set at what % of battery left the system will hibernate.
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Thread Starter 
i have it set to 5% currently
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More than likely it's just that the bay battery doesn't have the juice to keep the Laptop running while you swap primaries. Unfortunately I don't know if there's any way to make the system draw from the Primary battery first.
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