"Steve" <Steve.ebay******.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guys,
> Bit of a strange one here.
> I will soon be getting a Compaq M300 with the MEU but I have been told
> the battery is on it's last legs. I have found a source for a battery
> that sits in the Multi-bay of the MEU (docking bay) but I wondered if
> such a battery will still power the laptop if the laptop battery
> itself
> is dead or not even in place.
> Obviously it will only work with the laptop connected to the MEU (I
> ain't that fick, lol)
> My thinking being that maybe the drive bay battery runs the laptop
> THROUGH the laptops own battery.
> Any clues?
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
The right bay has 2 connectors: a connector for the battery and another
for the cd/dvd.
With a CD/DVD in there it uses ONE connector, the battery uses another.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...&lang=en&cc=us

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su...170706-002.pdf

see pg 73 of pdf ( ch 5 - pg 7)