Laptop help needed: How to quickly drain the battery?

[ArneHD]

I have a somewhat bizarre request, but I would like to know if there is a way to quickly drain a battery without removing it from the laptop.

The reason is that I recently spilt some soda on my laptop (it's four years old, getting a new one soon) and this had some sort of weird effect on the battery. Specifically, it stopped the screen from working properly.

The screen, when I am using battery power, or I am not recharging the battery will suddenly loose all brightness. This problem is alleviated when I drain the battery, since it seems that when I am recharging the battery, the screen shows a more or less normal brightness. Perhaps it drains the power supply directly, I don't know.

Anyway, does anyone here know how to quickly drain a battery without removing it? (I don't have the tools to remove it).

 

[Aramazd]

Did you try to crank up the brightness?

Do some CPU intensive task like media encoding.

 

[ArneHD]

Did you try to crank up the brightness?

Do some CPU intensive task like media encoding.

Yeah, Brightness is as high as it goes.

 

[Cutlass]

Defrag your hard drive. that'll keep the CPU and the drive working full time. Read stuff off the optical drive at the same time will use even more.

 

[Turner]

There's probably some kind of maximum/full power setting that you can turn on. That'll make it run as fast and hard has possible. The only other thing you could do would be to throw a dvd or something in and run that as well, so the dvd drive is running constantly.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Start a game like Civ4 or Madden. Those kill off a battery in about 2 hours.