Off-Topic: use laptop only as USB power supply

Fri May 21 02:39:58 UTC 2010

My last Lenovo laptop had a setting in the BIOS for exactly that.  Worked
great for hotel rooms (which notoriously have very few power plugs) when I
wanted to charge my cell phone and other devices over night.  No clue
about other vendors.

Hope that helps,
Adam

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From: Matthias Flittner [mailto:matthias.flittner at de-cix.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:15 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Off-Topic: use laptop only as USB power supply

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Hi there,
I'm not sure if anyone out there has an answer to this insane question:
But is it possible to use my laptop only has power supply via usb for my
mobile phone. Yes you heard right: I don't want to boot an operating
system I only want to charge my battery of my mobile phone. No fan should
be powered on. I only need voltage on the USB ports.

Any suggestions? ;)

best regards,
FliTTi
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