   Laptop: Put the battery in while it's running without blowing it up?
  My laptop recently decided to somewhat die on me. The stupid thing basically hangs on the HP Splash bootscreen displaying 'Press F10 to enter BIOS' and beneath it 'Press ESC to change boot order'. It does this for about 10 seconds, and then hard reboots.I can't trace the issue, and since the laptop is out of warranty I ordered myself a new Dell XPS 1530(T8300 Core2Duo 2.4Ghz, 256MB Geforce 8600M GT, 4GB of RAM). I also had contact with HP, and they're willing to fix it for me for free(or so they said). However, after having the laptop lie without CMOS battery attached and no battery, I decided to hook the CMOS battery back up to it and try to boot it. Surprisingly, it showed the boot order menu when I hit escape, and after I selected my regular HDD, it actually booted. However, I forgot to hook the battery up to my laptop when putting it back together and I don't want to turn it off until I receive my new Dell(They're packaging it at the moment, so I expect them to ship it tomorrow). Is it safe to put the battery into the laptop without the thing exploding? I don't want my laptop to turn off in case of power failure or for whatever reason to end up in an endless reboot cycle.Toolmaker   
  I'm failure certain that your laptop won't explode if you put the battery in while it's running :)  Otherwise you would be hearing a lot more stories on the news about exploding laptops!  However, I can't guarantee that it won't shut down or reboot or do something else that will cause it to die or lose data.   ;  Turns out it's hot-swappable :). I just put it back in without reboot/explosions/insta-deaths.   ;  A laptop battery cant make a laptop blow up, because the laptop has too much /. too little resistance, or the battery has too little / too much resistance, or some combination of the two. I forget the exact law.A spanner dropped onto the terminals of a car battery WILL explode, however.;Quote:Original post by speciesUnknownA spanner dropped onto the terminals of a car battery WILL explode, however.Is there an interesting story behind this waiting to be told?;  Once upon a time there was a child of 14 who was special and one day he didnt take his ritalin and his father was outside mending the car and the child took the caps off the battery which was on the pavement next to the car and was playing with it and then he dropped a spanner on the terminals and there was a big flash and he was blind for 2 days and nobody ever found the spanner.The End.   ;Quote:Original post by speciesUnknownOnce upon a time there was a child of 14 who was special and one day he didnt take his ritalin and his father was outside mending the car and the child took the caps off the battery which was on the pavement next to the car and was playing with it and then he dropped a spanner on the terminals and there was a big flash and he was blind for 2 days and nobody ever found the spanner.The End.You poor thi--- err, that poor child of 14. [lol]Well, it could've been better if he were made blind for 3 days instead of 2.  Bear with me.  Because then he could pass by this store and all would be well again:>_^   