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Yes this would be good - I have a M6500 which I still use as it's great! But the pain with PowerMizer means I have to babysit any Win 10 upgrades and as stated pull the power plug out at certain times. But it gets tricky year after year as the battery doesn't last as long as it used to and the upgrades get longer and longer! The recent upgrade 2004 took almost an hour to get to 60% and then did something to the video card, so it blacked out as I hadn't expected it to do it so early on. So it backed out to version 19xx and stating that is the most recent available while presumeably it reports it to MS. So am looking forward to this fix or will have to eventually get a new battery to see us through future upgrades, the batteries were never really long life on such a desktop workstation as this.

You can keep the PC plugged in until it reboots during the update.  I don't remember if it needed an hour to reach 60% while plugged in.  But yes if it still has 40% remaining after the reboot, during the time you have to avoid plugging it in, you're going to need a reliable battery.

As it happens I have a couple of extra batteries in nearly excellent condition because I had expected to need them someday, but no longer expect to need them because VMware no longer works, but I don't see a way to do private contacts in this forum.

Since Microsoft and VMware both made contributions to preventing VMware from working on first generation i7 CPUs, I will not have as much use in the future as I expected for my collection of M6500's.  I had to give in and buy a newer model with its reduced screen resolution.

I'm in the UK anyway - I'll put my email briefly until you reply if you wish to discuss

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Yes, shame about not using those M6500's. I love the 1200 pixel height which you just don't get nowadays as the manufacturers are just so focused on 16:9 for movies, a couple of small black bars didn't do any harm......

Too bad I wouldn't be able to deliver them.  When I was living in Japan it was possible to send a package by sea mail so that lithium batteries would be OK.  Now in Canada I don't think it's possible to mail lithium batteries internationally.  If you were in the US we could wait until the border reopens and I could mail them from a US post office, but it's not possible to mail them internationally from the US either.

Anyway, both Microsoft and Nvidia know how to avoid these blackouts.  I've read that old Nvidia drivers had PowerMizer UI in their settings panels, but Nvidia maliciously removed the UI.  I suppose it was hard for users to understand, but blackouts sure don't make it any easier to understand.

Just a follow up on this update - the computer finally let me update to version 2004 again at the weekend - and eagerly anticipating this I thought I'll see if MS have sorted this issue - I began the update process while plugged in... it then rebooted, got to 60%+,  and then the screen blacked out, bah. It reverted the changes after turning it off and once back, I downloaded the update again. This time I thought I'd try the update on a full battery only and wait for the low charge light, as I have said I had concerns as to the capacity. Miraculously, it got past that step and after 20-30 mins it rebooted and I used that opportunity to check the battery level in bios, and it stated 90%!

After finishing up the update (probably another 15-20 mins) it got to the Windows desktop, battery was still 50-60% or so. Was impressed as I thought it would have hardly any charge - although the non-linear level drop was not a surprise. Great going even so after nearly 10 years on the same battery (although always plugged in). Final test was to plug it back in without running the Nvidia hack. It promptly blacked out again. So another power off was needed and once back up, ran the Nvidia hack while on battery, plugged it back in, and it has remained stable ever since. I can therefore state that the blackouts have not been fixed. Shame.

I read somewhere it doesn't black out if you don't install the Nvidia driver in the first place and just use the default MS driver, but we shall see how it goes before trying that as I think you don't get the full resolution, will report back if I do this.

"I read somewhere it doesn't black out if you don't install the Nvidia driver in the first place and just use the default MS driver"

I agree.  To the best of my recollection the Microsoft basic display driver defaults to a lower resolution but you can set it back to the correct resolution, but performance is very slow.  Nvidia's driver on its slowest but most stable setting is faster than Microsoft's driver.

The problem is that when the Nvidia chip tries to switch to a higher power consumption and higher performance it fails.  A proper driver should detect the chip's failure, reset the chip and restart the driver to recover from the blackout.  In Windows 7 Microsoft miraculously found a way to restart video drivers after they crash, avoiding a BSOD.  Well Nvidia's driver avoids a BSOD too, it just crashes Windows, unless you disable Nvidia's PowerMizer.