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Annoying low bat message on the 200LX Message #1 Posted by GE (France) on 6 Jan 2003, 7:06 a.m. As I dug out a 200LX recently, its batteries were gone. I quickly replaced the main ones but not the backup (none at hand). So the machine powered up correctly and all was nice, BUT there is a warning message and beep every 10 seconds, lasting a couple of seconds, saying "Backup Battery Low" or something. I managed to shut off the beeper, but the message keeps on popping up every 10 seconds, and while it's displayed the machine doesn't respond to keystrokes (the graphing of a function even suspends in the calculator application - very weird !). So my question is simply : how do I shut off this nagging message ? (I don't want to purchase a backup battery as this is just for a few days worth of hmmmm... playing).

Re: Annoying low bat message on the 200LX Message #2 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 6 Jan 2003, 11:32 a.m., in response to message #1 by GE (France) Good question! I just researched this and found that Mack Baggette (one of the wizards of the 200LX) wrote a small BIOS hack to do just what you need. The program is on the SUPER site along with zillions of other 200LX programs. To get it go here: http://www.palmtop.net/search.html and search for: "BIOS Message Killer" -Katie

Re: Annoying low bat message on the 200LX Message #3 Posted by GE (France) on 6 Jan 2003, 12:42 p.m., in response to message #2 by Katie Wasserman Exactly on target ! Thank you very much !

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